For those of you who don't fully understand that today's unemployed are not the same as the unemployed from any other time, we are made up of people with Bachelors Degrees, Masters Degrees, even PhD's, In some cases we are people who've worked 20 to 30+ years. Some have families to feed. We are responsible people who have worked hard and paid taxes all our lives. We have applied for positions ranging from the fields and careers we've worked in to jobs that would allow us just to get by. In applying to companies we've faced sending in hundreds to thousands of resumes only to find we are one of 60-600 resumes received to jobs that may or may not even be open. We are under qualified, or overqualified, face age discrimination (which we would never know), or had our resume's thrown in the trash for any number of reasons. For some of us, we have worked all our lives and have faced this for the first time in our lives. My husband has worked straight 12 years my brother a straight 40 years.. we send resumes... no one even calls for interviews...