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Ridgewood, N.J., is a bedroom community full of former New York City stockbrokers, bankers and executives. A neighborhood Episcopal church offers them a support group where they can help one another cope with their industry's recent downturn.

NPR returns to check in on the group, first visited in June.

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To make it through the recession, some companies are throwing out the workplace rule book. One small New York advertising agency has opened its doors to the industry's many unemployed workers, offering them office space to look for work.

And in the process, it's making use of their skills.

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Over the past year or so, tens of thousands of people have lost their jobs on Wall Street. Many were highly paid analysts, traders and investment bankers.

And with the downturn in the financial services industry, it's been hard for them to find work. But some have found creative solutions.

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