Jon Polis lives in East Greenwich, R.I., one of the 20 states where 99 weeks of benefits are available. He used them all up after losing his job as a warehouse worker in 2008. ... He's been unable to find work because employers in his field want computer skills he doesn't have.
I wonder what computer skills
means in the context of warehouse worker. Making a bar-code scanner beep?
I'm sorry... but in 99 weeks, you could teach yourself at least basic computer skills from used (and therefore inexpensive) books. If you're smart, you could probably even teach yourself web design or programming in that much time.