Foreign media reported that a large number of people in the United States have been unemployed for at least six months, and the unemployment rate also remained at 6.7% in December last year, the first time since April last year without a decline. Howard University economics professor William Spriggs said that the current unemployment situation in the United States has been difficult for the unemployed to re-enter the labor market, the long-term unemployed “in a difficult situation, began to face employment discrimination, employers will consider the unemployed is damaged goods “.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data, more than half of the current long-term unemployed in the United States are from the leisure and hospitality industry, as well as education, health services, wholesale and retail trade. Government data also show that more than 40 percent of unemployed African-Americans and Asian-Americans have been unemployed for at least six months, while among whites and Hispanics, this proportion is about nearly 1/3. and women are also slightly more likely to be long-term unemployed than men, especially between the ages of 25 and 44.
According to U.S. government data, as of the week of December 19 last year, about 8.4 million people received unemployment benefits under the U.S. Epidemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation Program. The U.S. Congress, for its part, has reached an agreement on a new round of $900 billion in bailouts, including a direct check of $600 for individual Americans.
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