Situation for long-term unemployed improving
Conditions for the long term unemployed improved in February while still remaining distressed by historic standards. Workers unemployed 27 weeks or more declined to 3.739 million, or 35.8 percent of all unemployed workers.
This chart shows the number of Americans unemployed 27 weeks or more since 2000. the number of long-term unemployed has dropped since peaking in 2010, but remains high by historic standards.
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Today's employment situation report showed that conditions for the long term unemployed improved in February while still remaining distressed by historic standards.
Workers unemployed 27 weeks or more declined to 3.739 million or 35.8% of all unemployed workers while the median term of unemployment declined to 16.3 weeks and the average stay on unemployment went declined to 35.6 weeks.
Looking at the charts below (click for super interactive versions) you can see that today’s sorry situation far exceeds even the conditions seen during the double-dip recessionary period of the early 1980s, long considered by economists to be the worst period of unemployment since the Great Depression.