The long-term unemployed are still struggling to find work

The long-term unemployed are still struggling to find work
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FiveThirtyEight's Ben Casselman points to the fact that the job-finding rate is increasing for the short-term unemployed, but not the long-term:

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John Aziz is the economics and business correspondent at TheWeek.com. He is also an associate editor at Pieria.co.uk. Previously his work has appeared on Business Insider, Zero Hedge, and Noahpinion.