{"id":41433,"date":"2011-11-03T10:33:33","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T15:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=41433"},"modified":"2012-01-08T15:14:50","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T20:14:50","slug":"update-on-long-term-unemployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/11\/03\/update-on-long-term-unemployment\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on Long-Term Unemployment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pew Charitable Trusts just released an update on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewtrusts.org\/our_work_report_detail.aspx?id=85899365897&amp;category=988\" target=\"_blank\">effects of long-term unemployment<\/a>. One aspect of this economic crisis that sets it apart from others over the past several decades is how long unemployment is lasting. At this point, about a third of the unemployed have been out of a job for a full year or more:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/11\/historical-long-term-unemployment-2-nov-2011.jpeg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-41434\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/11\/historical-long-term-unemployment-2-nov-2011-500x361.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/11\/historical-long-term-unemployment-2-nov-2011-500x361.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/11\/historical-long-term-unemployment-2-nov-2011.jpeg 730w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though the likelihood of being unemployed went down with age, among those who have lost their jobs, long periods of unemployment are more common among older than younger workers:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/11\/unemployment-one-year-or-more.jpeg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41435\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/11\/unemployment-one-year-or-more.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"356\" height=\"539\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the full mini-report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewtrusts.org\/uploadedFiles\/wwwpewtrustsorg\/Reports\/Fiscal_Analysis\/Long-term-unemployment-addendum-November-2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2011\/11\/chart-of-the-day-long-term-unemployment-is-a-huge-problem----especially-if-youre-old.php?ref=fpa\" target=\"_blank\">Talking Points Memo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also check out Lisa&#8217;s post on the <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/12\/06\/long-term-effects-of-unemployment-on-individuals-and-nations\/\">long-term consequences of unemployment<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pew Charitable Trusts just released an update on the effects of long-term unemployment. One aspect of this economic crisis that sets it apart from others over the past several decades is how long unemployment is lasting. At this point, about a third of the unemployed have been out of a job for a full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[349,76],"class_list":["post-41433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ageaging","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41433"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41437,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41433\/revisions\/41437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}