This is from today's NY Times:
NY Times January 30, 2004
"The pernicious joblessness bedeviling the nation is spawning a new category of Americans dubbed "exhaustees": the hundreds of thousands of hard-core unemployed who have run through state and federal unemployment aid. According to the latest estimates, close to two million Americans, futilely hunting for work while scrambling for economic sustenance, will join the ranks of exhaustees in the next six months. They represent a record flood of unemployed individuals with expired benefits -- the highest in 30 years -- who are plainly desperate for help.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/30/opinion/30FRI2.html?th