Former Florida shuttle workers still struggling to find jobs

By next summer, employment at Kennedy Space Center is expected to fall to its lowest level since before the Apollo program blasted astronauts to the moon more than 42 years ago — a fact that doesn't surprise folks on the Space Coast but still causes many to wince.

It has been nearly eight years since then-President George W. Bush announced plans to retire the space shuttle, and the region still is struggling to find good jobs for thousands of workers whose paychecks disappeared with the end of the shuttle era.

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Michael A. Fletcher 10 Oct, 2011


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