Rima Grace

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If you look at the unemployment rate in this country, 4.3 percent, you might think, OK, things aren't so bad.

But then you look under the hood and you find that there are still a lot of people out there who've been trying to find work for months.

People with plenty of education, plenty of experience who still find themselves without a role.

Blake Farmer of WPLN in Nashville has this story on long term unemployment.

We've had automotive tech.

We've had a whole lot of health care.

The interesting thing is these are people that previously would never have been having to wait.

Most of us, we deal with our trash the same way.

Put it on the curb, and it gets picked up.

But when it comes to organic waste, you know, things like banana peels, apple cores, yard trimmings, it's not as simple.

That stuff makes up about a third of the solid waste in this country.

And when it ends up in landfills, it releases planet-warming gases.

So some states, they're trying to keep organics out of the trash altogether.

In other places, it all still goes in the same bin.

Because even though your trash might be worthless to you, some states make serious money off of it.

Including Ohio, home to Marketplace's Kaylee Wells.