It’s about people

Behind the jobless numbers are human beings whose lives are changed

Associated Press In this Jan. 27 photo, Ted Casper, 62, of Edgerton, Wis., stands for a photograph in a machine shop at Blackhawk Technical College in Janesville, Wis. Casper, who was laid off in 2009 from a semitrailer plant, is getting his second degree at the college in hopes of going into...

The Associated Press

J.R. Childress is up before the sun, bustling about in the French colonial brick house he built. He helps pack his wife’s lunch, downs some eggs or cereal for breakfast, pores over online and newspaper job listings and hopes—even prays&mda...

Published: 02/12/2012