A disturbing employment trend is hiding beneath the latest strong job numbers

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Americans who lose their jobs these days are facing a harsh new problem: It's getting harder to find another one quickly. The average jobless worker's bout of unemployment surpassed 27 weeks in October on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to Friday's jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That amounts to a job search of nearly seven months, the longest outside of the pandemic period since 2016, when the U.S. labor market was finally getting back on track after the 2008 financial crisis. About 2 million Americans have been without work for at least 27 weeks, the BLS reported. People in this category are referred to as the "long-term unemployed " and accounted for 27.