About 1.9 million Americans had been unemployed for 27 weeks or longer in September, 27.1% of all unemployed people, BLS said. For job seekers, the figure is a reminder that a low-layoff market can still be a hard one to re-enter.
One in five workers in a CNBC|SurveyMonkey poll said AI has them considering trade or manual work, but only 3% said they were already switching. Survey intentions are not the same as completed career changes.
