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Biden inherits a battered economy with 10 million still unemployed

“The labor market won’t be recovered for years. We still have a significant hole to dig ourselves out of,” one analyst said

One of the top priorities for President-elect Joe Biden will be to rebuild America’s battered workforce and kick-start business growth.

The labor market still faces a deficit of more than 10 million jobs, with more disappearing permanently. The number of unemployed Americans who have been jobless for more than 26 weeks jumped to 3.6 million in October from 2.4 million the month before, or one-third of all unemployed workers.

“The longer you’re unemployed, the less likely you’re going to find a job — and the longer you’re unemployed, you might just drop out of the job market altogether,” said Liz Ann Sonders, senior vice president and chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab.

The median duration of unemployment has climbed to 19.3 weeks, more than double what it was a year ago.

Yet the U.S. does not have the tools to realign workers and their skill sets to the new realities of the labor market.

“The labor market won’t be recovered for years,” said Ryan Sweet, senior director of economic research at Moody’s. “We still have a significant hole to dig ourselves out of.”

Reorienting the skill sets of potentially thousands of workers will be a tremendous undertaking. The Biden campaign has proposed providing two years of community college or equivalent training to all Americans, along with a $50 billion investment in workforce training through community college partnerships and free four-year tuition for students with family incomes below $125,000. Read more via CNBC

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