I believe I have tried everything you suggested.
And, sorry, but measures of economic recovery do not necessarily reflect improvements in the employment sector. A better measure of employment is the labor force participation rate which measures the percentage of the population age 16 and older who are employed. While the labor force participation rate has improved slightly (it is currently at 66.2) from a January/March 2005 low of 65.8 it remains considerably lower than it was at the time I was laid-off (when it was a 66.7).
http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servlet/SurveyOutputServlet?data_tool=latest_numbers&series_id=LNS11300000Looking at those labor statistics I can see that there are a whole lot of other long-term unemployed folks just like me.
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