I'm starting to suspect that one of the sparkling husband dude's kids lost a job--the sparkling husband dude is sixty-five, and set for life, himself--and so this concern about unemployment.
One's sorry to hear it if it's true, but the sparkling husband dude has only himself to blame, having always voted the straight (D) ticket, the straight Democrat machine ticket, all his adult life.
Voting has consequences, although in this case it seems it's taken too damned long for those consequences to strike the guilty. Like decades too long.