ANYTOWN , USA - Today's WSJ features an article titled "Job Losses Buffet U.S. Early, Compounding the Downturn." Particularly horrifying is the following quote ...
A rash of new job data show the labor market is now the worst it's been since the two prior recessions in 2001 and the early 1990s. One of the starkest indicators is that the number of people who have been unemployed for 27 weeks or more reached two million in September. That's 21% of the total unemployed, and approaching the prior peaks of about 23% in 2003 and 1992. The prospects of these job seekers grow dimmer as layoffs spread beyond the financial, home-building and auto industries.
Also in September, companies saw 2,269 mass layoffs -- in which at least 50 people are let go at once -- more than at any time since September 2001. And while the unemployment rate is at a five-year high at 6.1%, a broader measure of weakness that includes people who have stopped looking for work or whose hours have been cut to part-time is 11% -- the highest in 15 years.
Do you have any idea how bad this is for the American family?
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Footnote [1]: See box labeled Industry, then click "Staffing and Recruiting". Then put your industry in the box that says "Keywords." This is one of my tips ...
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