While unemployment has remained at or below 4.5% since the Covid-19 pandemic-driven recession, more people are finding themselves jobless for extended periods of time.
Currently, around one-quarter of all unemployed people in the US have been out of a job for at least six months, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That was around 1.9 million people in February, up nearly 1.5 million over the prior year, per the BLS. The last time long-term unemployed
https://www.hr-brew.com/stories/2026/03/10/squash-long-term-unemployment-taboo?utm_source=&utm_medium=syndication&utm_campaign=feed