Unemployment has both individual and societal costs, such as extreme financial hardship and

poverty, debt, homelessness and housing stress, family strife and breakdowns, boredom,
alienation, shame and stigma, increased social isolation, crime, deterioration of confidence and
self-esteem, atrophy of work skills, and illness this was stated by Alison McClelland and Fiona
Macdonald for the Business Council of Australia, July 1998.
According to the sunday express article ‘Unemployment and the brain drain”, Khamarie
Rodriguez, June 19, 2022, stated that many told them that they felt hopeless and regretted their
educational choices, and were unsure whether or not they could make meaningful financial
progress locally. They interviewed a person who was in a year-long thrust of unemployment,
anxiously seeking any form of income, depressed, and relying on family members to stay afloat.
She had applied for job after job, only to be turned down again and again. The article said that
she said “I started sleeping through most of the day because I felt exhausted just thinking about
it. I quickly went through this bout of regret where I felt like I wasted my time doing a degree,
thinking that if I could go back in time, I’d research more, I’d do something else, I’d be
somewhere else if I did,” the article stated that the easy choice was to migrate, persons could
only bare necessities and in order to get a good job u must know people. The article also stated
that It is a reality faced by hundreds of young, qualified, and skilled persons in Trinidad and
Tobago—many struggling to make a living, or battling anxiety and depression in their search for
jobs over the past few years.