The Long Haul For The Long-Term Unemployed: 99ers Face A Myriad Of Challenges In Their Fight For Full-Time Employment

Hopes and prayers seem to be fading among many of the long term unemployed, however, according to a series of studies of those whom the current economic crisis has trapped in long-term joblessness by The John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers University. Their research found that as the crisis took hold, once jobless workers passed the six-month threshold of joblessness, their prospects for finding any work at all diminished sharply and, as their rejected applications for work piled up and their resources dwindled, their spirits and sense of being connected to the larger society.

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