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The Sound of Ideas - Grappling with Long Term Unemployment
 
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The latest numbers about job growth in May belie a grim, persistent fact about the US economy: of the 15 million Americans still looking for work, almost half of those have been out of work for more than six months.

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John Schmitt, Senior Economist, Center for Economic & Policy Research
Zach Schiller, Research Director, Policy Matters Ohio
June 7, 2010