long-term unemployed

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 unemployment has not been this high for this long since World War II.

For one of the long-term unemployed, a very happy ending.

Discouraged workers give up after months of fruitless job seeking.

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.

People at an unemployment office say they're experiencing jobless numbers firsthand.

We hear from Millford Prewitt, a Brooklynite in his late 50s who has been unemployed for more than three years.

There are millions of Americans who've been out of work for more than six months. One woman shares how she stays hopeful.

The Government Accountability Office says the number of long-term unemployed 55 and older has more than doubled since the recession began back in 2007. That's bad news for the economy and children of retirees.