Changes that have made the food stamp program more generous, along with policies to reduce mortgage debt for low income people, also make it easier to wait for a better joboffer or work part-time rather than full-time.
Both parties are now trying to make sure the job-creating class is feeling the love, as they offer their road map out of the long running unemployment crisis.
All of those things can make for a bad experience and cause a candidate to stop pursuing that company or to turn down a joboffer, of he or she gets that far.
The sheer number of tomes that offer advice on how to be the next Hemingway is enough to make you head back to your day job or at least waste a little bit more time in the coffee shop.