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Putting a Face on the Unemployed

By Simone Orendain

Loves Park, IL – July unemployment in the Rockford region was eight-and-a-half percent. That's three percent higher than the national average. Every month the state puts out the statistics. But have you ever wondered who the people are behind those numbers?

WNIJ's Simone Orendain introduces us to a Loves Park computer engineer who lost his job of 20 years.