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USA Today: 2012 job market brightens, but unemployment won't fall fast
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After nearly three years of unemployment, David Mote will be back at work next week, overseeing construction of a medical school building in Dothan, Ala.
Mote, whose $2,000 weekly salary was cut to $360 in unemployment benefits before he lost even that 10 months ago, can again contemplate going out for dinner and taking in a weekend football game. "It feels great," says Mote, 52. "I've got a job. I got my (health) insurance back."
His employer, Batson-Cook of Atlanta, called Mote back to work amid a surge in health care and apartment construction as young adults who had doubled up with relatives find jobs and move into their own homes.
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