For all her troubles, Alice is cheerful.
She's sitting at a desk at the Northeast Kingdom Community Action (NEKCA) Parent-Child Center in St. Johnsbury, helping out with some clerical chores.
"I like this," she said. "I'd like to do secretarial work. I think that'll work out."
By her own admission, not all of Alice's employment experiences have "worked out." She tried a fast-food job, she said, and stitching in a shoe factory.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
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Veteran journalist Jon Margolis is the author of three books and was the national political correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. He is also an adjunct professor of political science at the University of Vermont.