ECONOMY/JOBS: “This month marked the largest single month increase in long-term unemployment since we started keeping records in 1948. There are now an additional 781,000 Americans who have been trying to find work for at least six months. They’ve been looking for work for at least six months and haven’t found it. And in the past, that’s a sign for permanency for them…
There’s another roughly 700,000 people who have dropped out of the labor force. Stopped looking for a job. The vast majority were women, demonstrating once again how this economic crisis has been especially tough on women and families in this country.”
-Joe Biden, “Joe Biden Speech LIVE from Grand Rapids, Michigan | Joe Biden For President 2020,” YouTube.com, Oct. 2, 2020