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Jobless need not apply

By Adrian Walker

 |  Globe Columnist  

  January 28, 2012

Bonnie Liotti got laid off last summer, but she never thought she would be unemployed into 2012. She is one of many people looking for work in Massachusetts who have found that employers want to hire people who already have a job. The Patrick Administration has taken notice, and is encouraging employers not to stigmatize potentially good employees whose circumstances - in the worst economy in years - isn’t necessarily their fault.

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