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Stuck at the Bottom: Long-Term Unemployment and Social Mobility

March 27, 2014, Elisabeth Jacobs

Elisabeth Jacobs looks at how long-term unemployment creates hurdles for social mobility on an individual level and across generations and breaks down the policy implications for unemployment insurance benefits and job training programs.

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Social Mobility Summit: Keynote Remarks by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Representative Paul Ryan

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Social Mobility Memos is a blog addressing the urgent challenge of promoting greater opportunity and mobility in the U.S., especially for the most disadvantaged, with posts from Isabel Sawhill, Elisabeth Jacobs and Richard Reeves, as well as other Brookings colleagues.

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