Viable Opposition: Unemployment in America - Who's Suffering the Most?

Viable Opposition: Unemployment in America - Who's Suffering the Most?

I have posted on the issue of long-term unemployment in the United States and how, this time, it really is different in previous postings.  A recent article by Rob Valletta at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco takes a more in depth look at the demographics of the long-term unemployed.

Let's open by looking at the number of civilian workers in the U.S. that have been unemployed for 27 weeks and longer: