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June 12, 2009
So, How About that Stimulus, Huh?
Feel the recovery.
People who still have jobs are faring worse than at any time since the Great Depression, a USA TODAY analysis of employment data found. Furloughs, pay cuts and reduced hours are taking a toll on workers who so far have escaped job cuts.
The employed worked fewer hours in May an average of just 33.1 hours a week than at any time since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began counting in 1964. Part-time work is at a record high. Overtime is at a record low.
The magnitude of job losses 6 million jobs gone, a 9.4% unemployment rate has overshadowed the groundbreaking nature of the nation's employment troubles, especially the financial decline of those still working.
"You can rip a whole chapter out of your Economics 101 textbook because the job market isn't behaving the way we were taught," says David Rosenberg, chief economist at money manager Gluskin Sheff and Associates.
Feeling the hope and change yet?
No?
How about now?
posted by Slublog at
04:08 PM
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