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Elliot and Miles loved working at the same company, until the spectre of layoffs came to haunt them.

From the episode:

— Ofer Sharone — sociologist at UMass Amherst, and author of The Stigma Trap: College-Educated, Experienced, and Long-Term Unemployed

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