More often, he said, they are families who had been supporting themselves with minimum-wage jobs until prolonged unemployment pushed them into the streets.

In many areas, the housing market also suffered, resulting in evictions, foreclosures and prolonged unemployment.

Thus workfare might present some potential benefits to health, and it might also reduce the chances of an unemployed person becoming unemployable because of prolonged unemployment.

One other benefit of prolonged unemployment that was universally reported - the sense of gratitude when it ends.

It has been documented that prolonged unemployment increases physical, sexual and child abuse within affected families.

Suppose," he added, "there is a tendency for prolonged 'cyclical' unemployment to turn into something that looks like 'structural' unemployment.

Some struggled to make the adjustment to the new economy, and suffered prolonged unemployment, reduced living standards, etc.

The deeper reasons for prolonged unemployment are important to grasp, if the United States is to set its course toward full employment of both white-collar and blue-collar workers.

Even those who lost upper-middle-class incomes were not immune and were horrified to see prolonged unemployment rapidly scuttle their assets and dreams.

The Ministry sometimes described this as a "reconditioning" process, which hardened up young men who had gone "soft" through prolonged unemployment.