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  started 4 months ago by Maureen Sharib

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  LAWRENCE, Mass. - Pablo Garcia describes himself as a hard worker and has the broad shoulders and thickly muscled arms to prove it. But like so many people in this timeworn former mill town, he's been involuntarily idle for months.

  "There's a lot of people looking for work. They're in the same situation I am," Garcia says. "I've been looking everywhere. It doesn't matter the salary. I just want a job."

  If the worst of the recession is past, as many economists believe, you'd never know it by looking at the labor market. The unemployment rate in this working-class city on the banks of the Merrimack River is 16.6%, up sharply from 7.7% in the fall of 2007 and well above the national rate of 9.5%. More here.

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