tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12605192.post-78449965253133279172010-05-10T11:40:00.000-07:002010-05-12T11:43:07.531-07:00<a href="http://webfeeds.brookings.edu/%7Er/BrookingsRSS/topics/useconomy/%7E3/u1mxmUFo-a0/0510_jobs_burtless.aspx" target="_blank">Long-term Joblessness Reaches New High</a><br />Friday’s employment report wasn’t good news for the long-term unemployed. The number of people looking for work for 27 weeks or more grew by 169,000 to 6.7 million, half of the total number of unemployed, and the average duration of joblessness continued to grow, to 33 weeks. Gary Burtless responds to the question of whether the government should propose new tax, training or other policy ideas to target the jobless who can’t find work.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12605192-7844996525313327917?l=iirl-labor-economic-news.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Janice's Labor, Work, Economics News Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01140345268634031988noreply@blogger.com