Older Workers Twice as Likely to be Among Long-Term Unemployed
In the past couple of years we’ve heard (and talked) a lot about The 99ers, a group of jobless Americans, unceremoniously known as “99ers” because of their inability to find work prior to the exhaustion of the maxim mum 99 weeks of unemployment benefits and extensions. But the term 99er is now twice as likely to apply to older workers, according to a new report from The Huffington Post’s Arthur Delaney, proving once again that the struggling economy is impacting more mature Americans than anyone previously thought.
