'Why Us?': A Year After Being Laid Off, Millions Are Still Unemployed

'Why Us?': A Year After Being Laid Off, Millions Are Still Unemployed

Janitor Gloria Espinoza still vividly remembers the moment she was laid off last year. A supervisor gathered her and her colleagues at a parking lot of the office where she worked in San Francisco and then broke the news. "I thought, 'God, why us?' " Espinoza said. "It was like receiving a bucket of …

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