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Long-Term Jobless Borrow Money To Stay Afloat

by David Schaper, NPR
December 26, 2011

More than half of the long-term unemployed and under-employed have had to borrow money from family and friends to pay their bills, according to a recent NPR News-Kaiser Family Foundation poll. And borrowing from friends and family can complicate the relationships.

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