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Pain, despair and poverty reach fever pitch for unemployed workers



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Randy Chase, 57, does masonry work on construction crews. With unemployment benefits stalled since April and no savings left, he’s been living in his pickup truck outside of Denver since September, using an electric heater to keep warm.Randy ChaseRandy Chase has lived in his pickup truck for months.Luckily, the tiny cab of his 1996 Nissan is easy to heat and that’s a life saver in the sub-freezing winter chill outside of Denver.So, armed with a gas-powered generator and a small electric heater, the 57-year-old makes do.Chase has suffered misfortune after misfortune since the spring: Unemployment benefits have been …

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