http://american-rattlesnake.org/2014...ss-in-america/

One of the inescapable facts of our economic recovery is that millions of individuals continue to struggle to obtain gainful employment of any sort. A recent study by the John J. Heldrich Center for Workplace Development at Rutgers University confirms what most of us already knew. Namely, that those who have been unemployed for six months or longer are finding themselves locked out of the job market. You can read the full report for yourselves here, but you should be warned that it won’t be a pleasant experience. More than 3 million Americans have remained unemployed for more than six months, while 2 million have been unemployed for over a year. And while the percentage of workers belonging to the former category has declined from its height in 2010, it still remains greater than it was during the catastrophic 1983 recession...