Friday, February 03, 2017

Employment Situation: Unemployment Duration January 2017

Today's employment situation report showed that conditions for the long term unemployed went flat in January.

Workers unemployed 27 weeks or more increased to 1.850 million or 24.4% of all unemployed workers while the median term of unemployment declined to 10.2 weeks and the average stay on unemployment declined to 25.1 weeks.