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01/03/11 1:42 PM

#356450 RE: Tuff-Stuff #356449

>A sizable chunk of the formerly jobless have had to switch careers to find work again - and they're not exactly moving into exciting new opportunities, but taking pay cuts. This from a survey reporting more than half of those are generally satisfied with the new jobs, and more than half looked for at least seven months.


January 3, 2011, 12:50 pm
The Jobs They Are A-Changin’
By CATHERINE RAMPELL

A large fraction of displaced workers who have found new jobs have had to switch careers, and most of those career-changers have downgraded to a lower-paying job, according to a new report from Rutgers’s Heldrich Center for Workforce Development.

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/the-jobs-they-are-a-changin/