09.13.2011 Policy Points

Playing The (Lousy) Employment Odds

Over at Rortybomb, Mike Konczal points out that unemployed Americans are more likely to drop out of the labor force altogether than they are to find a new job. The graph below shows that trend by illustrating the flow of people classified as unemployed into the categories of employed and out of the labor force over the period spanning 1995 to the present.

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