Woolf: Getting back to normal on jobs will be slow and painful 

The Vermont Department of Labor in Montpelier. Photo by Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDiggerArt Woolf is a columnist for VTDigger. He recently retired as an associate professor of economics at the University of Vermont. The latest weekly update from the Vermont Department of Labor shows a continuing improvement in the state’s economy, although it is still far from normal or healthy.Last week, 1,480 Vermont workers applied for unemployment insurance, the seventh consecutive week of declining appl