Warning: Long story/rant

As some of you know, right now we are furloughed from our regular job as aid workers. We were supposed to go back overseas this fall, and now it's been pushed to next fall.

In the meantime, we don't get paid. I mean, yes, we aren't working for them so obviously we're not paid, but we are also basically just dumped in the USA and left to fend for ourselves. Our skills as translators (with a pretty unusual and not sought-after language) and ESL teachers and Health Educators do us no good at all here.
(Note: We always knew this was a possibility and we chose this career anyway because its rewarding and we love it, so I'm not really complaining about this specifically. But it's still hard.)

So. Anyway. We got pregnant right before this went down, so I was in my first trimester and we were unemployed. DH got a job as an electrician's assistant and I looked for nannying jobs ( found none) and eventually decided to go back to school instead since I couldn't find any work. We just barely scraped by during my pregnancy. We got Medicaid ( thank God because we lost our insurance and all other benefits when we were "furloughed") but we got through.

Eventually the electric company DH was working for basically went out of business, so he got a job at a concrete factory. He works 60-80 hours a week and he comes home exhausted, filthy, and covered in burns from the carbolic acid and other nasty compounds he works with.

This company is horrible. He has repeatedly asked for better safety gear to prevent these burns, which they ignored. They threatened to fire him if he didn't work more hours ( he already works 60-80!) but he can't! He is barely sleeping as it is and if he works more he's going to have a physical breakdown.

The last straw today that got me to write this post - it's FL, but it's still fairly cold. They work outside. The company ordered uniform coats for the guys, which came in today. The owner made an announcement that production wasn't good enough, and that the guys hadn't earned their coats, so they weren't getting them. She says she'll "reevaluate" on New Years and if they get production up by then, she'll distribute the coats.
What the f*ck?!?!

I'm just so angry right now. My husband works his butt off, and he can't quit this company because its the only work he can find right now.

I wish I could get a job and let him stay home with Vi just to have a couple months break and recover ( he'd LOVE being a SAHD) but I'm breastfeeding and I couldn't bring in enough anyway. There aren't even jobs to be had.

I'm sorry for the vent. I'm just angry and frustrated for my husband. I hate to see him going through this.