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He was known as the mayor. And when people needed something done in a pinch, they would often hear the refrain "Go see Carl." Carl Chambers, 56, worked as an elevator starter, someone who monitored the cars--and helped people if they got stuck--for 27 years at the north...
Unemployed for the first time in his working life, Chambers is among the 100,000 New Yorkers who lost their jobs as a result of the terrorist attack. The job market was unquestionably on a downward trajectory well before Sept. 11, with cascading dotcoms and stock values. The Labor Department...
People who are about Chambers' age, older baby boomers with lots of seniority, face the toughest market in terms of returning to work. Don Davis, vice president of work-force development for the National Council on the Aging, says, "This is a period when mature workers don't fare too...
Chambers is trying to look in a different direction, largely because his options are limited; the additional five years the union was willing to add to his age put him at 61 and a few months. The minimum for retirement is 62. His first vocation was photography. Being out of...
One of the key flaws in U.S. security systems stems from the fact that only 2 to 5 percent of checked bags are X-rayed or hand-searched before being loaded onto a plane. Those bags, which are chosen randomly or flagged by a computer system, are subjected to intense...