There's probably no more effective pressure group than the unemployed, no other group has more time and incentive to protest publicly and contact government representatives. Workers displaced because of imports are often the least able to find alternative work, such as the fairly unskilled catfish workers in depressed regions. When they do, they generally earn less than before. Moreover, they often need to spend their unemployment benefits to survive in the short term, and they put off retraining because they hope to be recalled to their old jobs. When they do seek retraining, many workers, especially ones, lack the educational background needed to gain required skills, or they train for jobs that do not materialize.