The national unemployment rate for June was at 9.5 percent, a minor drop from the month before, but still high enough that many are concerned with how to find work. Some good news for unemployed workers came last night as the Senate overcame a filibuster to extend unemployment benefits, but there still aren't enough jobs. We wanted to know where they've gone. Have they gone overseas or just been eliminated altogether? We asked you to help us figure this out and found that the jobs have disappeared in almost every field.

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Jon from New York writes:

My position in an in-house graphic design department was outsourced to a Midwest agency, to keep costs down. In an interesting twist, I spoke to the VP, of said Midwestern agency, the other day. He was one of many people laid off, to make up for the rock bottom price the agency had bid, to get the outsourcing contract.

Barbara from Northern New Jersey shares this story:

I've been in the medical field, doing X-ray and Ultrasound, for over 35 years. I was replaced by a recent graduate who is young enough to be my daughter (and is probably being paid half my salary). For the past 10 to 15 years, community colleges and for profit technical schools have been saturating the market with medical techs. Where I live, there are no full time jobs in radiology, and very few part time or per diem positions being advertised. I believe the medical field gearing down in anticipation of the new healthcare reform.

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Tyrone Thorpe writes:

Unemployed. AT&T lost (really gave up by not bidding on) the Md. relay contract. The new contract owner for Md. would have a center in Frostburg, 120 miles west of Baltimore and too far from home for me. AT&T had other offers but they were in Georgia, Virginia and Pennsylvania, still too far away for me, a man with no license and still living at home. But AT&T did offer career training and education funding for me to go back to school (along with my AmeriCorps award). I almost wish I took the out-of-state offer. But then I wouldn't be able to further my education as I intended.

James Ellsworth writes:

I am a barely self employed full time student. I am interested in working, but not as an average employee. Employees have no rights and are made to jump through too many hoops not only to gain employment, but to keep it as well, which is why I choose self-employment.

And Denise called in to 877-8MYTAKE to say:

I work in the yacht industry and I come from South Florida. In this industry there are a lot of foreigners that come here and take the jobs on the yacht center here. Quite often these yachts are owned by American citizens and I haven't been able to get work for two years and these people come in to the country on tourist visas. Immigration doesn't stop them and neither do our placement services or there are there's just no checks and balances and there's no way to stop this. The reason people who hired them are the foreign captains who are working as the captain for their vessel and they choose not to hire Americans even while on our soil.  

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