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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/25/opinion/jobless-and-invisible.html?ref=opinion

Letter

Jobless and Invisible

Published: August 24, 2012

To the Editor:

Re “Long-Term Jobless Regroup to Fight the Odds” (front page, Aug. 17):

One way or another, the older long-term unemployed become invisible. They stop looking for work and disappear from unemployment statistics. They lose their homes and blend into the shadows of shelters and streets. They eat poorly and irregularly, they can’t afford health care and their circumstances no doubt hasten their descent into the permanent invisibility of the grave.

A generation is disappearing, along with a decent middle-class standard of living. The older long-term unemployed are bewildered by their predicament, and the working public is stymied by the problem. From our business leaders and elected representatives we get shocking and inexcusable silence, apathy and inaction.

ARTHUR CHERTOWSKY
Brooklyn, Aug. 20, 2012