Dealing with unemployment after a lifetime of work
Now for an actual human being behind the government statistics on the labor market that were released today. Last fall, we spoke to Maureen Cunningham, who at 51 recently moved to Florida, when her husband retired. Before the move, she’d arranged to keep doing a version of old job from the new location. But now she’s stuck looking for work again and we wanted to check in.
“I’ve worked my whole life, and to suddenly not be working is hard.”
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