DISMAL PROSPECTS:
26.2 weeks: The average duration that unemployed workers are out of a job, a record high since the Labor Department started tracking the figure in 1948. The figure is up from 19.8 weeks in January.
5.4 million: The number of people unemployed longer than 27 weeks, also at a post-World War II peak, though today's larger labor market is a contributing factor.
17 percent: The unemployment rate when it includes frustrated workers who have dropped out of the labor market, people forced into part-time work and those who want a job but haven't looked recently.
263,0000: The total number of jobs lost in September.
Some Figures to Figure Out
now that our economy is in the ditch and there is little chance of it coming out of it in the foreseeable future.
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