In this first episode of “America’s Comeback from COVID” series, Ofer Sharone, Professor of at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, joins the program to reveal the challenges facing the long-term unemployed and older workers in particular. Discover what lessons we should take away from the end of the Great Recession that will apply to today’s long-term unemployed workers. Ofer also discusses the sociology of aspiration, and how it related to the long-term unemployed.