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Long-term unemployment sky high

There is this buddy of mine with 25 years spent in IT, and yet, he can’t find a job to save his life.In terms of IT experience, he would most likely be in the top 10 percent. He’s worked as a program manager, programmer, cybersecurity, run the IT department for both a municipality and a large newspaper, so he should be the guy that companies are looking to hire, but they are not.His former job was paying him approximately $130,000 a year; but for the past four months, he’s been living off unemployment, $500 a week, while dipping into his ...

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