Unemployment: For long-unemployed, hiring bias rears its head

California's unemployment rate remained unchanged in February at 10.9 percent as steady job growth continued, but the state still has a long way to go to fully recover from the recession. Its jobless rate remains well above the national average of 8.3Thomas Delany~ Sun-Times Media Unemployment last year was 12 percent for men who served during Iraq and Afghanistan compared with 9.3 percent among civilian males, according to the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics report.Few job seekers

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