Corroborating My Previous Post

Jeff Jarvis at BuzzMachine approaches the problem I mention in my last post, but he's trying to come up with a partial answer. I think his proposal is quixotic and I'm guessing he doesn't want to say what I said in my last post, but at least he's trying to get a constructive discussion going. Excerpt:

The State of Louisiana says that there are 750,000 now jobless from the New Orleans metro area alone. God knows what the figures from elsewhere are.

As I've written before, New Orleans already had a depressed economy that was dependent primarily on tourism, which will take years to rebuild. The infrastructure of the city, its businesses, and its housing stock are in ruin. Many in the New Orleans diaspora will not want to return (see this story from Nashville today; I heard an NBC report this morning saying that an informal survey of survivors in shelters found 80 percent would not return). Many will have nothing to return to. They will need to find jobs and homes and new lives elsewhere. I've read accounts of the professional classes already setting down new roots in new places; this will certainly happen among the working poor as well.

Thanks to the internet and all the job services that now use it, it will be easier to help connect these people to jobs than ever before.

I challenge those services and newspapers to come together to help match these people with jobs anywhere in America.

Link.