San Francisco Chronicle

ASSOCIATED PRESS--
Broke and Broken Hearted: Laid-off Single Men get Creative in Search for Special Someone
“Close to 80 percent of the job losses since December 2007 were jobs held by men, according to economics expert Mark J. Perry, who analyzed Bureau of Labor Statistics data. For some guys, unemployment is the last thing they want to reveal to a potential date. Christie Nightingale of Premier Match, with clients in New York, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia, said an unemployed man is a harder sell. She used to be able to brag to her female clients that a man worked in hedge funds, for example. Now she has to explain that he is a great match in other areas - looks, personality, religion. “I find that women are very accepting,” she says. ’Some of the women are going through job losses as well or they have friends that have gotten laid off. It’s the times that we’re in.’” (06/04/09)