20-somethings go home to regroup

GO AHEAD, ask Joseph Sumi.

Ask him what it's like to graduate from Shorecrest High School in 2005, go to college, get married, move to Idaho with your new wife and no job, equal parts hope and anxiety gunning the motor of a '98 Volkswagen.

Ask him, and a story of our economy tumbles out, equal parts familiar and unexpected, of a college grad who could find only work at a drugstore; who was then laid off from said drugstore; who, after getting pummeled by the worst job market for young people since World War II, decided last November to move in with The Parents. Except they weren't his parents. They were his in-laws. And they lived in John Day, Ore. Population 1,700 and change.