Resilience Circles

Our unemployment is about to run out. Came across this article about a strategy for coping with unemployment.

Resilience Circles are springing up across the United States.

Here's an older article that focuses on Portland, Oregon

But now that I think of it, with unemployment at just over 9 percent at this writing, I just don't see Americans are desperate enough yet to get into this mode of social networking. And by the time things are at 25 percent unemployment, we've surpassed recession and moved into depression (the number for the Great Depression). I wonder if people will have anything left to barter.  I just learned that America has been more than one depression in America. You can read about all of them here.