Can MIT Cure Long-Term Unemployment?
A new project at MIT is applying the scientific method to help people get back to work.
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If there is a way out of America's crisis of long-term unemployment, it's possible nobody has a better chance of finding it than a new team of five researchers based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Their project, the Institute for Career Transitions, will take a data-driven approach to figuring out the best way to help the long-term unemployed land jobs. The research is the first of its kind; with 4.1 million Americans who have unable to find work for more than six months, it couldn't be more important.