Checking in on the 'New Jobless'

Norlin Gutz's pig farm went bust last January. Since then, he's been working with his son raising corn and soybeans and taking care of 12,000 pigs for another company. If he can get financing -- no easy feat in this environment -- he hopes to take over some of his son's business so that the younger Gutz can return full time to Lockheed, where he works as an IT specialist.

"I won't go back to raising pigs," Gutz says. "I think it's too unpredictable with the economic structure we have here today. I miss taking care of the babies, but it would bring back some of the bad stuff, the memories." Gutz says that the bank still hasn't sold the hog site he once owned. It was insured for $1.3 million; the bank recently got an offer for $35,000.

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