This is the conclusion, as Pedro Nicolaci Da Costa of the Wall Street Journal reports, reached by:
Josh Bivens … economist at the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal think tank in Washington. [Unemployment] has remained unusually elevated during this recovery, leading to fears that the long-term jobless would suffer permanent difficulties in finding a job–either due to weaker skills or employer biases.
Policy elites have been arguing that this recession and anemic recovery are somehow special and unlike all those that have gone before, especially as regards unemployment. But:
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