They weren't quite the huddled masses yearning to breathe free, but rather unemployed Americans queuing for new, federally funded jobs.
Anyone who tried to "circumvent" that process by simply posting their results on their webpage, expecting to reap the rewards, would find themselves mistaken and quite possibly unemployed.
This may be quite handy for unemployed politicians like myself looking for somewhere affordable to live but for many normal working families it's been a depressing experience.
"Unemployment is a global issue … but in South Africa it gets exaggerated precisely because of the history, because of the fact that of the unemployed, quite a good percentage is unemployable, and this is what we've got to deal with.
Crossrail was looking to recruit people who were "unemployed, preferably quite a way from the job market, and for us to do everything that we could to bring them into the workplace" by giving them technical training and safety skills.
Judging by public opinion, it doesn't sound like anyone in either of those countries is particularly excited about "invading" the UK to join its 2.52 million unemployed and – quite obviously – they're not all criminals.
Well, after being unemployed for quite a while, and muse-less, he takes a 28-hour caregiver course which engrains in him the helpful caregiver mnemonic, ALOHA: Ask, Listen, Observe, Help, Ask Again.
If you're unemployed, that's quite a threat.
Quite right: it's the unemployed and poor who are supposed to get a kicking from the tabloids, not multimillionaire pillars of the establishment.
In 2011 I was unemployed for three quite miserable months in the deepest part of winter, eating a lot of pasta from a big 5kg bag and eventually having to take out a loan to pay off a bit of overdraft so I could afford a travelcard to get to my new barely-above-minimum-wage job. .
