U.S. News Amid Healing Labor Market, Long-Term Unemployment Still Dire “I tend to believe that what is going on is a queueing process, where employers rank individuals like they’re sitting in the queue, and they go with the short-term [unemployed],” says Rand Ghayad, a Ph.D. candidate in economics at Northeastern University and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. “The only way […]