For Growing Ranks of the White-Collar Jobless, Support With a Touch of the Spur.

The meeting could have been at any number of corporations across the country. Everyone present sat at tables around an LCD projector with their laptops open. But the setting was a church conference room, not a board room, and the spreadsheets under discussion focused not on work but the lack of it. They documented how many hours each person had devoted the previous week to looking for a job. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]