A year of unemployment for 1 in 3 jobless Rhode Islanders
Nearly one in three jobless Rhode Islanders was out of work for a year or more in 2010, as the state’s unemployment rate averaged 11.6%.
That striking statistic is contained in new U.S. Labor Department data published by The Wall Street Journal. At 30.8%, Rhode Island was among a handful of states where more than 30% of the unemployed were out of work for 52 weeks or longer.
The situation was even worse in Connecticut, where 32.4% of jobless residents had been out of work for at least a year. In Massachusetts, the figure was 29.9%.
Here’s the full breakdown of the duration of unemployment for jobless Rhode Islanders last year:
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