Charts: The Worst Long-Term Unemployment Crisis Since the Depression

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http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/12/longterm-unemployment-recession-charts

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Currently, nearly 11 million Americans are unemployed. The unemployment rate stands at 7 percent. Both of those stats are improvements from a little more than four years ago, when the post-recession jobless rate peaked at 10 percent and more than 15 million people were out of work.



However, there currently are more than 4 million Americans who have been unemployed for six months or longer. Not since the Great Depression has the United States experienced such massive and persistent long-term unemployment.




Overall, the long-term unemployed (those with out a job for six months or longer) make up nearly 40 percent of all the jobless.

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