Long-Term Unemployment in US / A new team of five researchers at MIT

If there is a way out of America’s crisis of long-term unemployment, it\’s possible nobody has a better chance of finding it than a new team of five researchers based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Their project, the Institute for Career Transitions, will take a data-driven approach to figuring out the best way to help the long-term unemployed land jobs. The research is the first of its kind; with 4.1 million Americans who have unable to find work for more than six months, it couldn’t be more important.

“I think what’s happening here is unique,” said Ofer Sharone, the MIT sociologist who co-founded the research center. “We want to help, and we want to figure out the best way to help.”

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via Can MIT Cure Long-Term Unemployment? – Bloomberg.