unemployment

Does the ‘Save Six Months of Salary for Emergencies’ Rule Still Apply?

It’s a good starting point — but nowadays, it’s way more nuanced than that

Unemployed, Single and Addicted: The Plight of the Modern American Working Man

As we’ve written about extensively here at MEL, America’s working-class men are in the midst of a genuine public health crisis. Between the loss of…

How to Get Over the Shame of Losing a Job

It’s demoralizing. It’s depressing. It’s degrading. But there is a way to get beyond it

The Trucking Industry Is Doing Whatever It Takes to Get Millennials Behind the Wheel

Thirty-two-year-old Allie Knight is the rarest of specimens: a female, millennial long-haul truck driver. “I always wanted to drive the biggest and best anything,” she…