Friday, April 01, 2016

Employment Situation: Unemployment Duration March 2016

Today's employment situation report showed that conditions for the long term unemployed generally worsened in March.

Workers unemployed 27 weeks or more increased to 2.213 million or 27.6% of all unemployed workers while the median term of unemployment increased to 11.4 weeks and the average stay on unemployment declined to 28.4 weeks.