The Great Recession
The United States Recession from GDP Growth from Q3-2008 until Q2-2009. The jobs recession continued to last years after this point. Career Purgatory was born in the Great Recession, which was started due to the financial system meltdown. We documented much of the losses of employment in the Great Recession in real time.
As any college graduate can tell you from the Great Recession there is more than a grain of truth to this video.
For the 23.1 million unemployed workers out of work here comes some more bad news, if you are long term unemployed you are worse than…Read more
A recently published report from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Fransisco says that economic uncertainty has probably added about 1% to the unemployment rate…Read more
The U-3 unemployment rate increased in most of the country.
Landing a new job doesn’t mean what it used to. The American dream is no longer to have the big house, white picket fence with…Read more
Get ready for a new wave of young good looking waiters and waitresses as Abercrombie & Fitch is going to close another 135 stores over the…Read more
Surely to spark great debate on the highly political event of counting unemployed workers the typically regarded unbiased Congressional Budget Office or CBO announced that…Read more
During The Great Recession many undergraduates have found that finding a decent paying entry level job is very difficult. In many cases competing against seasoned…Read more
If you want a job as a seasonal worker at Toy’s R Us now is the time to be applying. Last we heard they hire…Read more
The Associated Press has a great summary out about how bad the Great Recession has treated the youth (the future) of the economy. Currently instead…Read more