Right now, there are millions of laid-off construction workers who could be repairing our bridges and roads and modernizing our schools.

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"I'm definitely not a goal-scorer, but he laid it right on a tee for me, " Orpik said.

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While older, more experienced and better-paid reporters were getting laid off left and right, I got hired because my employer could pay me pennies, and I would work my butt off to prove myself.

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And that, in turn, means that the contractors start hiring some of these folks who may have been laid off -- some of them may have been trained right here at Savannah Tech.

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Companies and asset managers have tended to take a laid-back approach to pension underfunding, relying on the markets to right things as they often have before.

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