Is there a solution for the perils of long-term unemployment?

"Coming to you like a beggar, hat in hand..." Le sigh.

Short answer to the question in the headline is "Probably not," because you would need to change a bunch of legal stuff, political stuff, and ingrained human biases essentially all at once, and that's very hard to do. In order to better understand exactly how bad long-term unemployment can be, let me point you to this article, and I will pull out a few …