The 99ers— Over a Million and Growing

As if we had to ask, here's how bad it is (according to Annie Lowrie's piece in the Washington Independent):

The joblessness crisis — in the average duration of unemployment, if not the absolute unemployment rate — is unprecedented in the postwar United States. Of the 15 million unemployed in America, over 7 million have been out of work for more than six months, nearly 5 million for a year and over 1 million for two years — the worst statistics since the government started keeping count in 1948.