"Many people believe that when they get laid off from their job, they are alone, but many soon come to realize that this is a result of the current recession. They can connect their troubles to issues."

Private, public

Explanation:

They can connect their private troubles to public issues.

When many people are laid off from their job, they are alone and it become a private/personal troubles to them. But by the time they are able to understand the happening in their environment/surrounding; they realized that there is a public/external factor that contributed to their laying off.

In the aftermath of understanding the happenings in their surrounding, they are able to connect their private troubles to public issues.

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