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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (166205)	6/2/2010 2:48:30 PM
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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (166205)	6/2/2010 9:55:34 PM
From: Jane4IceCream	Respond to of 173976

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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (166205)	6/2/2010 10:09:59 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 173976

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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (166205)	6/2/2010 10:12:39 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 173976

The job market is improving, but one statistic presents a stark reminder of the challenges that remain: Nearly half of the unemployed—45.9%—have been out of work longer than six months, more than at any time since the Labor Department began keeping track in 1948. Even in the worst months of the early 1980s, when the jobless rate topped 10% for months on end, only about one in four of the unemployed was out of work for more than six months. Overall, seven million Americans have been looking for work for 27 weeks or more, and most of them—4.7 million—have been out of work for a year or more. Long-term unemployment has reached nearly every segment of the population, but some have been particularly hard-hit. The typical long-term unemployed worker is a white man with a high-school education or less. Older unemployed workers also tend to be out of work longer. Those between ages 65 and 69 who still wish to work have typically been jobless for 49.8 weeks.