… national rate, it is double what it was when the recession started in December 2007, a statistic with which people like Paulette Gordon, 59, are all too familiar. Gordon, from Houston, Texas, lost her job as a technical analyst for energy companies …

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… onto carnival rides and enjoy concerts by country singers and classic rock dinosaurs. "What are they doing here?" said Paulette Kahlstorf of Zimmerman, who declined a card from Zuleyha as she left the fairgrounds with her husband. "I didn't come …