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Discouraged workers
The unemployed that most people track are active job seekers. So far this year, 4.4 million who have lost their jobs don't expect to be recalled to work; 1.7 million people who have lost their jobs this year have been out of work for more than five months; and 1.6 million unemployed workers haven't applied for a job in a month.
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