Clocking out

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May 27
Gayl waits to hear whether the phone interview will go anywhere. Eleven weeks of joblessness means her severance pay has come to an end. Now she lives exclusively on unemployment checks, which cover about a third of her former income (roughly $70K a year). From that, she has to feed herself, pay car insurance and send her landlord a monthly check for $900. “You go through a depression,” Gayl says. “You think, It should be easier for me to get a job. I’m good at what I do.”

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