Brian Gutrick travelled 1,200 miles and paid $12,000 for a fresh start.
The newly married construction worker wanted a job with better prospects and more stability, so he took out a student loan and headed from Virginia to a trade school in Alabama to study heating, ventilation and air conditioning.
Brian finished the “H-vac” programme in 2007 at the top of his class, but he landed in an economy already beginning to teeter. Before he could find a foothold, the country had slid into the worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
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