Michelle Hall, 44, hasn't worked since j last June, when funding ran out for her; administrative job at Peaceful Acres Horses, a sanctuary in Pattersonville, j N.Y. She applies for jobs online and usually hears nothing. "It's a feeling of what I'll call emptiness," she says. "I have a lot of skills that are very applicable across the board, from file clerk to middle management." Hall is the face of a new problem that remains poorly understood: chronic, long-term unemployment that continues even as job growth resumes across the economy.
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