[Harris:] You know, they say it can be a full-time job trying to find a job. In today's "Money & Main Street" segment, Poppy Harlow sits down with a couple of job seekers who have been pounding the pavement full time for nearly a year.
[Poppy Harlow, Cnn Correspondent:] Rachel Gold and Anthony Barberio don't have much in common. Rachel is 28 and worked in recruiting after graduating from college. Anthony is 46. He worked on Wall Street for 20 years, but he never went to college. The thing they do have in common, a long job search after being laid off. Rachel lost her job back in November.
[Rachel Gold, Job Seeker:] I definitely didn't think that I would be sitting here, you know, nine months later, you know, without employment.
[Anthony Barberio, Job Seeker:] When I first was let go, I figured maybe a month, two months, you know? And I didn't think it would last this long.
[Harlow:] For Anthony it's been more than a year since he was laid off. And each day brings more work to find work.
[Gold:] This afternoon at 2:30, I have a recruiting meeting with somebody that I was networking with. Tomorrow morning at 10:00 I have another meeting with a recruiter. I'm not sure if they have positions but, you know, just to do some networking.
[Harlow:] Rachel spends a lot of her time making business connections using social networking sites and she also applies for jobs online every day. So you've applied for more than 650 jobs.
[Gold:] Correct.
[Harlow:] How many interviews have you had out of that?
[Gold:] Maybe 10.
[Harlow:] Anthony has applied for hundreds of jobs, too, and he's using employment agencies in his search. But when his unemployment benefits run out, he'll be forced to stop looking on Wall Street and take any job he can find.
[Barberio:] Well, I'm going to put, like, a deadline as to when I'm, you know, going to have to really seriously, you know, look for something, you know, whether it be a department store or something like that.
[Gold:] These are people that I've e-mailed.
[Harlow:] Until a job comes along, Rachel has started a blog, kickedforward.com, based on the quote "when life kicks you, let it kick you forward."
[Gold:] It's difficult, but, you know, I think I'm just trying to be as optimistic as possible that I'll find a position soon.
[Harlow:] Rachel says she started to get more interviews since we first talked with her in August. And despite the tough job market, Anthony says he's hearing about more openings and hoping one of them is for him.
[Barberio:] I'm anxious to get back to work. You know, I mean, you know, almost a year in the house, you know, it could drive somebody crazy.
[Harlow:] It certainly can. I just got off the phone with Anthony, Tony. He hasn't found a job yet, but some help may be on the way for people struggling to find work. Earlier this week, the House approved a bill that would grant more than a million unemployed Americans an additional 13 weeks of jobless benefits. Tony, that would be in any state that has over 8.5 percent unemployment. Now it heads to the Senate. We'll see what happens there. We're tracking it. Tony.
[Harris:] Like Michigan, right? And you spent some time recently...
[Harlow:] Like Michigan to name yes, about 27 states, actually, have higher unemployment than that.
[Harris:] That's right. All right, Poppy, thank you.
[Harlow:] Sure.
[Harris:] And for more stories of people surviving in a tough economy, watch for more "Money & Main Street" reports tonight at 8:00 Eastern, right here on CNN.