The Faces of the Unemployed,

The frustration of the search showed as Steve Lespiegle, 25, of Harlem, worked the phones and the computer at the New York labor department offices in Harlem.
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Job seekers crowded the office of Workforce Denver, a branch of a state-run unemployment agency, on Friday.

Joe Daily waits for a phone to use to contact employers directly for interviews and jobs at the State of California Employment Development Department office in Oakland,

In Brooklyn, Youssef Tsouli sat in an unemployment office Friday at the Department of Labor for the State of New York. After filing more than 60 job applications since he lost his job on Sept. 15, with no luck, Mr. Tsouli decided to come to the unemployment office for help. He had spent the last two days here.