Jul 28 2009
It’s the Jobs Stupid: Why There will be no Recovery until Employment Stabilizes. When Obvious Financial Truth Becomes Uncommon. New Nurses Competing with Old Nurses for Hours Because of Gender Unemployment.
It should be rather obvious that without any sustained job growth there will be no economic recovery. In the same breath, you will have someone tell you that this is no common recession yet when it comes to talking about the stock market they will tell you that in normal times, stocks recover before jobs. [...]
Jul 2 2009
Employment Situation: Job Anti-Growth – A Decade with Zero Net Added Jobs. 131 Million Nonfarm Payroll Employment in June of 2000. 131 Million Nonfarm Payroll Employment in June of 2009. 6,460,000 job losses since start of Recession.
The so-called second half recovery got off to a rocky start. The market was expecting 367,000 job losses for the month of June but instead got 100,000 more than expected. The market quickly turned sour as 26,000,000 Americans are now unemployed or underemployed in the job market. Yet what is even more troubling is the [...]
