'Walk a mile in my shoes':

Long-term unemployed ask 'What will happen to us?' 

Never since the Great Depression have so many unemployed been out of work for so long.

Never have so many applied for so few jobs.

Never have so many asked: What will happen to us?

Nationally, the proportion of people jobless for six months or more now makes up 46 percent of the unemployed. That’s the highest percentage on record, dating to 1948.

As the jobless lose or exhaust their 99 weeks of unemployment benefits, they face challenges unlike anything they ever imagined.

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