New Release (Sept. 1, 2009): “Girl On the Brink” Speaks Out for Millions of Jobless Americans for Labor Day 2009″
For Immediate Release: March 30, 2009
Contact: Erica Villanueva
Ron Sachs Communications
Tallahassee, Fla.
850.222.1996
“Girl On the Brink” Sounds the Anthem
For America’s Newly Unemployed
- New Reality Blog Exposé Combines
Serious Personal Realities with Perverse Laughter -
WASHINGTON, DC - Ann Powers, an early victim of the recession and a single mom, launches Girl On the Brink: Surviving Desperate Times with Desperate Measures, a new blog that sounds the anthem for more than 12.5 million unemployed Americans across the country.
Panicked, desperate and going for broke, Powers chronicles her day-to-day existence in the brave, new bushwhacked economy from the day she was fired. She puts a blunt twist on dozens of needs and concerns facing the unemployed, from sex to psychological battles to hopes for tomorrow.
“This is a bad dream for everybody, especially the American worker like me,” Powers said. “We don’t have bazillions in stock options. We have our families but are losing our homes. The government has given billions to AIG, but what about the rest of us?”
Her biting, sometimes sardonic humor touches subjects that are no laughing matter as she writes about her unemployed-for-a-living status and out-of-work challenges that present philosophical and moral dilemmas. Her true confessions center on issues of romance, family, relationships and survival as she seeks to re-balance her life after her work identity tipped off the scales.
“I write with humor because it relieves the stress after I’ve run out of Ambien,” said Powers, referring to a popular sleeping pill.
A stark portrayal and up-close account of life on the dole, Powers takes readers behind the scenes in a reality blog exposé that explores her frailties and details how she keeps her home out of foreclosure, her two small children shielded from the severity of hard times, and her spirits up.
Turned down for welfare and awarded $176 a month in food stamps for her and her two young children, Powers, now a Medicaid recipient, blasts the current system for its out-of-reality practices and services while Wall Street corporate pirates take her money and run to their island escapes.
She fantasizes about jobs that brought bimbos like New York Governor’s Eliot Spitzer’s call girl and ex-church secretary Jessica Hahn Playboy-rich success. She reveals how she games the system to pay her bills and about the oddities of living with her ex-husband because he’s also unemployed and neither of them can afford their own places. She interviews the homeless about what, for instance, they stash in their plastic grocery bags.
Powers opens a window wider than any other unemployment blog with personal realities and telling anecdotes that capture her feelings of insecurity in an unsecure world.
How life turns out for Powers and millions of Americans like her has yet to unfold. Follow her, and you follow a modern true tale of a girl on the brink. Visit: www.girlonthebrink.com.
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