1.   To get more funding, one community mental health center demonstrated an increased demand from dislocated workers.

2.   For now, dislocated workers are learning to cope in an environment where nothing is certain anymore.

3.   If Congress slashes funding for programs for dislocated workers, small businesses will suffer and welfare roles will grow.

4.   Job-hunting prospects for young mothers competing with highly skilled dislocated workers are likely to be bleak.

5.   The Job Training Partnership, a federally financed program to retrain dislocated workers, is widely respected here by Republicans and Democrats, business, labor and educational leaders.

6.   The pact calls for some job security language, higher pensions, a more favorable cost-of-living adjustment and severance pay for dislocated workers.

7.   Unions are blocking the abolition of programs that serve dislocated workers.