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(People Patterns, Sept. 20):
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 I am in the communications field, above entry level.
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 I was laid off in August 1988,
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 and after a thorough and exhausting job search, was hired in August 1989.
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 My unemployment insurance ran out
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 I found cutbacks and layoffs in many companies.
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 The statistics 
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quoted by the new Census Bureau report
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 (garnered from 1984 to 1986)
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 are out of date, certainly as an average for the Northeast, and possibly for the rest of the country. 
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what bothered me most about the piece was that there seemed to be an underlying attitude
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 to tell your readers 
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all is well
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 -- if you're getting laid off
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if you're unemployed,
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 it's a seller's market.
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 you captioned the graph
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 Are you kidding?
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 Looking for a job was one of the most anxious periods of my life 
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-- and is for most people.
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 Your paper needs a serious reality check.
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 Reva Levin 
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