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Californians who lose their jobs continue to be out of work longer, with 646,000 in October unemployed more than six months, according to state Employment Development Department data.
Typically the newly unemployed — those out of work less than five weeks — make up the largest pool of the jobless, but the length and depth of this recession has turned the usual experience upside down.
A year ago in October, 32.6% of the 1.2 million Californians who were unemployed had been out of work less than five weeks, the most of any category based on duration.
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