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:

And this is the disaster of the post-2008 economy — with unemployment having risen so much during the recession, plus a slow recovery, lots of people have been thrown onto the scrap heap. And they're struggling to climb off.

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What this means is that solving the problem of long-term unemployment is tricky, and requires addressing the additional matters of health problems, as well as loss of skills.

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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.