article_snippet.sent: President Barack Obama was in Utah on Friday to promote an initiative that would see US veterans hired to work for the solar electricity industry .
article_snippet.sent: Employers aren't laying people off,' noted Patrick O'Keefe, director of economic research at the accounting and consulting firm CohnReznick. '
article_snippet.sent: Frances Scoggins, left, attended a 15-county event in Georgia in search of work on Thursday.
article_snippet.sent: She's been unemployed for the past four months .