As Weeks Become Months, Unemployed Try To Keep Busy

Courtesy Digg - Business & Finance  Sun, 03/07/2010 - 05:40

There are now 6.1 million people who have been out of work for six months or more. The average duration of unemployment is well past anything the U.S. has seen in the past 30 years.


 

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