Commentary | Jobs and Unemployment

The long road back to full employment

“We’ve been adding jobs for more than a year now but we still have a huge deficit in the labor market,” Economist Heidi Shierholz says in this video. “We would have to add 285,000 jobs every month for five years in order to get back to the pre-recession rate of unemployment.”


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