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Subject:Tech writing makes the front page From:"Lathrop, Sarah" <Sarah-Lathrop -at- forum-financial -dot- com> To:"Tech Writer List (E-mail)" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:48:36 -0400
On the front page of yesterday's paper here in Portland, Maine was the article, "Recovery eludes long-term jobless." It discusses how unemployment is rising among highly skilled people and the person they use as an example (along with a photo) is a technical writer who has been unemployed for over a year. In the article they give this statistic, "There were 129 technical writing jobs in Maine in 2000 and the Maine Labor Department projects that there will be 133 in 2010, a growth of only four positions in 10 years."
