You read that right: there are technically fewer long-term unemployed, but only because of the people who have given up -- taking early retirement, say, or resigning themselves to live on other government programs, or go off the economic grid entirely into shadow economies, doing odd jobs and other "legal hustling."

你的理解很正确：从数据上看，长时间失业的人数很少；但这仅仅是因为人们放弃工作——或者说提早退休，或者辞职来靠政府政策生活，或者脱离经济圈进入影子经济，做临时工和其他“合法且忙碌赚钱的工作。”

In fact, as Casselman points out, the fate of the long-term unemployed has always been grim. Prior to 2007, only 15 percent of those who had been out of work for an extended period of time were able to find jobs in any month; short-term unemployed rejoined the workforce at twice that rate.

实际上，正如Casselman指出的那样，长时间失业者的命运是很糟糕的。在2007年之前，失业一段时间之后，只有15%的人每个月都能找到新的工作；30%的人在短时间失业之后可以再就业。

The numbers are worse from 2008 to 2011, according to a Brookings paper by Princeton economist Alan Krueger, and graduate students Judd Cramer, and David Cho. The paper showed that only 11 percent of workers unemployed 27 weeks or longer returned to work on a full-time basis. Twenty-four percent found part-time work, 30 percent continued to look for work, and 35 percent stopped looking altogether.

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