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Wednesday, March 10, 2010 7:13 AM
Source: Connecticut Post)By Rob Varnon, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport
Mar. 10--This story originally appeared in the Sunday, March 7 print edition of the Connecticut Post.
A young couple walked down Elizabeth Street in Derby carrying yellow bags from the food bank in this city where the unemployment rate tops 10 percent. Just across the river, people are searching for jobs on library computers in Shelton, where unemployment is 7.3 percent.
Disparities in jobless rates are not limited to geographic boundaries in Connecticut. The gaps fall across age, race and skill sets, leaving an unsettling picture of hardship unevenly spread throughout the region.
And a new trend is beginnning to emerge from the regional data, said John Toomey, head of the state Labor Department's research division. While the distribution of unemployment has largely tracked trends from the past, the size of a long-term unemployed class has expanded, he said.
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