This is maddeningly vague. I've reread it and I can't figure out if it's about continuous unemployment or not. I think that it is but they want to make it about

This is maddeningly vague. I've reread it and I can't figure out if it's about continuous unemployment or not. I think that it is but they want to make it about firing. They talk about firing, then about firing some more, then they need some hard stats so they talk about long term unemployment. "Unemployed people continue to become increasingly unhappy over the next few years." All the facts are about being unemployed long term, they just talk about firing a bunch. The graph is about unemployment. "People who regularly attended church had a buffering effect from the impact of unemployment" is the closer. Am I crazy? This seems like an article about one thing dressed up as another.