Last August, researchers at Rutgers University contacted 1,202 unemployed men and women nationwide to discuss their plight. Two months ago this research team was able to reconnect with 908 of those same people and discovered that an astonishing 80 percent were still out of work and only 13 percent had found full-time employment. Worse, only one in 10 of the 13 percent had found jobs that paid them as much as their last salary. Tomorrow, the Labor Department will announce its monthly jobs report for April, a statistic that isn't very important to the general public but is urgent to...