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Long-term unemployed
Jobs report reveals alarming level of long-term unemployment
Feb 5, 2021
This has many economists predicting the economic pain of the pandemic will last long after the economy "recovers."
A spike in long-term unemployment is looming
Sep 2, 2020
Temporary layoffs are becoming permanent for more furloughed workers.
Why would you hire the long-term unemployed? Why not?
by
Noel King
Jan 27, 2014
We expect the President to ask companies to pledge to hire the unemployed. But some hiring managers see a potential risk in hiring someone who's been out of work for a long time.
Long-term unemployed get a holiday without much cheer
Dec 24, 2013
Long-term unemployment has not been this high for this long since World War II.
After a year of unemployment -- finally, a job
Feb 5, 2013
For one of the long-term unemployed, a very happy ending.
When the unemployed stop looking for jobs
by
David Gura
Sep 7, 2012
Discouraged workers give up after months of fruitless job seeking.
Recovering from job loss
Aug 23, 2012
Author DW Gibson on what he learned traveling across the country talking with the unemployed for his new book, "Not Working," and one of the book's subjects, Bridgette Lacy, discusses what it's like to be jobless.
For public good, not for profit.
Letter: From the perspective of the long-term unemployed
by
Kai Ryssdal
Jun 1, 2012
We hear from Millford Prewitt, a Brooklynite in his late 50s who has been unemployed for more than three years.
Jobless unsurprised by today's bad report
Jun 1, 2012
People at an unemployment office say they're experiencing jobless numbers firsthand.
One day at a time for the long-term unemployed
May 25, 2012
There are millions of Americans who've been out of work for more than six months. One woman shares how she stays hopeful.