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Call them lucky. Call them persistent. But don’t call them unemployed anymore.
As the economy slowly hobbles back to health, some long-term jobseekers are finally getting the thing they and millions of others have dreamed of, in some cases for years: a job.
“I’m having a chance to grow again and come back. That’s what my wife and I are saying — 2011 is the year of the comeback. We just don’t look back,” said Steve Kelley, 63, who recently returned to work as a construction superintendent after more than two years of unemployment.
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