The Vicious Cycle of Joblessness.

The article focuses on the Occupy Wall Street movement and long-term unemployment in the United States. It mentions unemployed aircraft pilot Gordon Stevenson was sympathetic of the Occupy protests but was skeptical that demonstrators could focus their discontent to a political agenda such as unemployment. It comments on several unemployed Occupy protesters who downplay their unemployed status and suggests that unemployed people are too focused on seeking jobs to realize they could protest or speak out. It talks about the use of public libraries by poor unemployed people to fill out online job applications and describes it as one venue for bringing small groups of unemployed people together. It suggests that President Barack Obama has dampened potential unrest by the unemployed.