Originally Posted by GatorB

You need to learn to read. It doesn't say unemployment wil be 30% moron.

"We're nearly at one out of four laid-off workers has already been out of work for six months.

That's Andrew Stettner at the National Employment Law Project. He and his research partners at UC-Berkeley predict the share of long-term unemployed will hit 30 percent by next year"

That means of those that have been laid off 30% will be laid off 6 months or more. So if umployment is at 10% then 30% of those or 3% overall, will have been out of work for 6 months or more.