The number of long-term unemployed people is more than double the rate during normal economic times.The Washington D.C.-based Economic Policy Institute says the percentage of people without work for six months or longer surpasses every economic downturn since the Great Depression.Mike Simonson continues our series called “Two Years Later”.
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