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If the current recession is the longest since WWII and continues for another year, one of its most frightening characteristics is that the number of people whose jobless benefits run out is ... Congress agreed to extend unemployment benefits to a 59-week period last year. ... If there is any such thing as a typical recession,
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Unemployment occurs when a person is available to work and seeking work but currently without work. The prevalence of unemployment is usually measured using the unemployment rate, which is defined as...
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Jun 6, 2009 ... The US unemployment rate rose to the highest level in 26 years, but the loss of fewer jobs than expected amplified hopes of recovery.
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Jul 3, 2009 ... The pace of job losses quickened last month with the American economy shedding 467000 jobs, as unemployment rose to its highest level in 26 ...
www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/business/economy/03jobs.html
Educated, experienced, and out of work: Long-term joblessness continues to plague the unemployed ; By Sylvia A. Allegretto Andrew Stettner; March 3, 2004 ... The consequences of extended periods of joblessness are significant: the long-term unemployed often face financial, personal, and health care hardships as well as the...
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Jake Tapper and Karen Travers report: In an interview with Bloomberg News’ Al Hunt today, President Obama says he thinks unemployment will hit 10% this year. Will unemployment reach 10%? asks Hunt. “Yes,” says the president. ... June 16, 2009 4:39 PM ... Jake Tapper and Karen Travers report: In an interview with...
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Coverage of the financial crisis from The Washington Post and around the Web ... This morning's news that U.S. unemployment has hit 13.7 million, pushing the rate to 8.9 percent, tells only half the story of this recession. ... The total number of Americans who are not working full-time but ought to be is actually about 22 million,
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The writer and columnist told a roundtable panel on ABC’s This Week that “there are a lot of these smart economists who say that if you keep extending these temporary unemployment benefits, you’re just going to extend joblessness even more.”...
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Under 25s feel the brunt of recession as unemployment hits 14-year high ... Britain faces losing a generation to unemployment after figures showed half the jobs lost over the past year were those of youngsters, pushing up the UK's youth joblessness rate to the highest in Europe.
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Latest ONS figures suggest that the big surge in joblessness over the past year may be levelling out ... 16 Dec 2009: Ministers likely to focus on the figures for youth joblessness - described as a 'national emergency' by unions - in the final unemployment figures for the year...
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