(6 Feb 2009) FILE - October 14, 2008 Elkhart, Indiana 1. Tight shot people walk into workforce centre 2. Tight shot of woman on computer 3. Tight shot of people in line New York City - February 6, 2009 4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Beth Ann Bovino, Standard and Poor's economist: "Certainly our jobs are being taken away at rapid pace. The stimulus package and what it's offering is certainly going to help with jobs, it's certainly going to bring down that unemployment rate that we now have 7.6 percent. Problem is when is it going to get through and how fast? Even once it is in place it's going to take several months for even the quickest jobs to be made. So, maybe it will come into place in 2010 when the recession is probably over." FILE - October 14, 2008 Elkhart, Indiana 5. Wide shot of workforce centre 6. Tight shot of people in line New York City - February 6, 2009 7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Beth Ann Bovino, Standard and Poor's economist: "What the government would need to concentrate on is what would extend the employment and growth going further. I think investment in technology areas, health care and particularly education might be a long term benefit for the US." FILE - October 14, 2008 Elkhart, Indiana 8. Wide shot of exterior of workforce centre Dallas, Texas - February 6, 2009 9. Tight shot of people in line 10. Wide shot of people in line 11. Tight shot of women at job fair 12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Betty Kelly, job applicant: "You put in applications and you wait for someone to call or you call them and then they tell you it's like three to six months. It's just long wait." 13. Tight shot of man and woman filling out paperwork 14. Tight shot of hand filling out paperwork 15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kenneth Graves, unemployed human resources worker: "People have responsibilities, they have children, they have families, and they have bills to pay. Bills are coming weekly and they are coming monthly, so it really saddens me to really see people in a situation like that because you never know how long its been how worse it is or how bad it can get. So it really saddens me to see something like that." 16. Wide shot of people at job fair 17. Tight shot of man at job fair STORYLINE: Five hundred and ninety-eight thousand Americans lost their jobs in January - the biggest monthly decline in the workforce since 1974 and grim proof that the job climate in the US is deteriorating at an alarming rate. With the unemployment rate at 7.6 percent, US President Barack Obama is under intense pressure to revive the economy. Congress is still wrangling over the make-up and costs of the economic stimulus, with the debate centreing on how the package will create jobs. In the 12 months ending in January, 3.5 million jobs disappeared - the most on record since 1939. All told, the number of unemployed workers in the US now stands at 11.6 million. In Dallas, Texas, thousands showed up for a job fair and queued out the doors for a chance to talk to prospective employers. One woman, Betty Kelly, who was looking for work, said employers were very slow to respond to applications. "You put in applications and you wait for someone to call, or you call them and then they tell you it's like three to six months. It's just a long wait," Kelly said. An unemployed human resources worker, Kenneth Graves, said he could empathise. "People have responsibilities, they have children, they have families, and they have bills to pay. Bills are coming weekly and they are coming monthly, so it really saddens me to really see people in a situation like that because you never know how long it's been, how worse it is, or how bad it can get," Graves said. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/8569002ebaef8aaf11b39afffcce6b75 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

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