Keller @ Large: Occupy Boston Protesters And Job Seekers
BOSTON (CBS) - In Massachusetts, the unemployment rate is at seven percent, with more than 258,000 out of work. New Hampshire has nearly 40,000 people looking for jobs.
Looking for work has been tough for some people going on three years or more now, and it isn't getting any easier.
So when several dozen local companies threw a job fair today not far from where the Occupy Boston protesters are denouncing corporations for not hiring more, we wondered, do beleaguered job seekers agree with them?
WBZ-TV's Jon Keller Is At Large
The people Jon Keller spoke with dressed in their best business attire were too busy hunting for work to march or camp out in Dewey Square, and seemed a world apart from the occupy protesters.
But it tells you something about the depth of their frustration that some of them look to the protests as a possible spur to more hiring.
