A Personal Look At Unemployment
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The U.S. Labor Department says 12.7 million Americans are jobless, with four of ten of them out of work for 27 weeks or more. VOA’s Jim Randle introduces us to a woman who spent two years in the ranks of the long-term unemployed. She made a difficult journey from highly-paid corporate sales agent to living in a noisy and dangerous homeless shelter.