Great article.
Sad story. If I won the Powerball or MegaMillions jackpot tomorrow, consisting of maybe a hundred million dollars, one of the things that would be really cool to do would be to hire all the older unemployeds for maybe six months (not at their former salaries, a hundred million only goes so far and I need a house with a hottub) and set them a task to create something that will bring this country out of its recession/depression and back into an explosion based on new technology or whatever. I wonder if that would be productive?