Your story about the jobs recovery in Washington State

Three years into the recovery, unemployment rates in our state tell a mixed story. Unemployment in King County stands at 6.3 percent while the rate in Grays Harbor and Pend Oreille counties hover at around 13 percent.

That's only part of the story. Some of the jobs that disappeared during the Great Recession haven't come back. Was your job one of them? KUOW wants to know more about the jobs and people left behind in this jobs recovery. Tell us your story.

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Tell us briefly what job type you've noticed disappearing, or what job you lost.

From what you've observed, what change brought about the end of this kind of work?

Has any other kind of job within this industry grown out of this change? Please tell us about it.
How are the qualifications the same or different?

If you were laid off because of this, tell us about your job search and what you've found.
This is a bigger space than it looks: you can go on for a long while.

Tell us how you've reacted to the situation you've described.
For example, have you looked into retraining or moving to improve your prospects?

What else should we know? Who else should we contact to research this story?

If you haven't mentioned this before, what's your line of work?

What's your gender?

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