Ohio Voters Put Firefighters Out of Work Including Wounded Veteran

Layoffs At Franklin Township Fire Department Include Decorated Iraq War Veteran
10 News
Kevin Landers
November 6, 2014

Voters overwhelmingly rejected a Franklin Township fire levy.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Paul Shambaugh grew up on the west side Columbus and when he returned home from serving two tours in Iraq, he says he wanted to help the people he grew up with.

His dream died, when the fire levy failed Tuesday night.

The former Marine infantryman calls the whole situation frustrating. “Here I am, come beginning January, probably laid off tell my wife we may not have health benefits, not getting paid.”

He says watching his injured fellow Marines on the battlefield and feeling helpless are reasons why he wanted to be a medic in his hometown. “There was nothing more than I wanted to do was to help people here," Shambaugh explains.
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Deployed soldier got lay off notice while risking life in Afghanistan

First read this so you know what happened before this soldier lost his job while deployed to Afghanistan.

Ex-Im $32 million loan guarantee to Brazilian company supported 250 American jobs for … three days

Now read this to get properly ticked off!

ND Soldier Laid Off While Still Overseas
Valley News Live
December 12, 2012

A soldier fighting a war overseas is laid off from his job with no warning but a letter he received a month and half after it was sent out.

The North Dakota soldier is one of many laid off at LM Wind Power in Grand Forks. In all, nearly 350 full-time and temporary employees and contractors lost their jobs.

We had the chance to talk with the soldier about his mindset knowing he does not have a job when he returns home.

That soldier, Gerald Hawk Jr. says he first found out on December 7 when he received a care package from his mother. The care package contained his mail. In that mail was a layoff notice dated September 27.

"The whole situation is a shock," said Hawk Jr.

The letters said things like: "Starting December 1, the layoff is a permanent layoff," "your position will be discontinued due to economic downturn," and "this in no way reflects negatively on the quality of your employment."

To make matters worse, Hawk Jr. has not had the chance to try talking to LM. He says, "Phone access and time difference make it difficult for me to call. Although my supervisor and co-workers had my contact email and my Facebook."
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Maywood CA lets everyone go including police

California town to lay off all city employees, disband police

By Muriel Kane
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 -- 11:46 am
Economic hard times are causing many municipalities to look for ways to reduce their payrolls, but none has taken it as far as the town of Maywood, California.

On Monday night, the Maywood City Council voted unanimously to fire all 100 city employees and contract out most services, including record-keeping, street maintenance, and parks and recreation, to the neighboring town of Bell.

"We will become 100% a contracted city," Maywood's interim city manager stated.

Even the Maywood police department will be disbanded. Those services will be provided by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, since a proposal earlier this month to merge Mayfield's police department with that of Bell was met with angry protests by Bell residents.
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California town to lay off all city employees

Therapists seeing more 'collateral damage' from economy

As most of my readers know, I lost my job a year ago. No unemployment for me because I worked for a church that did not have to pay into the system. As of today, I have part time work starting to come in. (More on this later) It is very stressful to see your job and paycheck go when you did nothing wrong. It was so stressful for my brother that less than a week after he lost his job, he had a massive heart attack and died. He was only 56!
When it comes to stress, having something happen that is out of your control or has nothing to do with you, it leaves you doubting everything. We question right and wrong. We question what's wrong with us that we lost our job but people we know did not. More and more layoffs are coming. More and more businesses are closing their doors. There will be a lot more people needing help but without insurance and without incomes to pay for therapy, how will they get the help they need to recover?

Therapists seeing more 'collateral damage' from economy
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Psychologists say referrals are up during this economically turbulent time

Therapy helps to "bear witness" to the troubles people are having, doctor says

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By John Bonifield
CNN Medical Producer

(CNN) -- Stacey Rosenberg, a former marketing manger in Boston, knows the catastrophic feeling of a layoff. She has lost her job twice in the midst of the recession.


"When I first got laid off, I sort of had a mission. I wanted to get a new job as quickly as possible, and when it became apparent that that was not going to happen very quickly, it was very upsetting for me," Rosenberg says.

Unemployed for months, Rosenberg started retreating from friends and family, spending more time by herself. Since early summer, she's sought help inside a psychotherapist's office.

"I had to figure out how to deal with it the second time around, because I did so poorly the first time around," she says.

No formal data exist on the number of Americans who are turning to therapy during the recession, but most clinical psychologists say that referrals are up.

"This is really unprecedented," says Nancy Molitor, a clinical psychologist in Chicago, Illinois. "I've been practicing for 20 years, and I'm seeing just an unprecedented amount of anxiety, as are most of my colleagues."


Rick Weinberg, a clinical psychologist in Tampa, Florida, says that in one recent week 80 percent of his patients were discussing the pain inflicted on them in the economy. His patients included a small business owner who was forced to lay off longtime staff, a family of four evicted from their home and moving into a rental, and a family with two teenagers that was down to a one-parent income and experiencing frequent spending arguments and acting out by the teens.
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