At the job fair in downtown St. Petersburg today, I was struck that most of the people I talked to said they've been looking for at least 10 months. Some have either recently run out of unemployment benefits or soon about to...

Picks up on the L.A. Times theme in the post below about how a record 44 percent of the 15 million unemployed nationwide have been out of work for more than six months.

All told, organizers said about 3,000 people came through before doors closed at 3.