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The Scariest Unemployment Graph I’ve Seen Yet
JUL 20 2010, 12:00 PM ET | Comment
The median duration of unemployment is higher today than any time in the last 50 years. That’s an understatement. It is more than twice as high today than any time in the last 50 years.