Our Great Economy

You may be doing worse than ever, but for corporations, times are better than ever and at workers' expense.

It's all unprecedented

The Great Recession of 2007-2009 was characterized by a massive decline in private
sector wage and salary jobs, rapidly rising unemployment and underemployment, and steep
increases in the median and mean durations of unemployment.
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While the recession officially ended in June 2009, public opinion polls of U.S. adults and unemployed workers have revealed quite different views on the well being of the American economy and its workers. Two ABC polls in May and June of 2010, a year following the official end of the recession in June 2009, revealed that 88 to 90 per cent of respondents rated the nation’s economy as “not so good /poor."2

In a May 2010 public opinion poll by NBC and the Wall Street Journal, 76 per cent of
respondents claimed that the U.S. was still in a recession and 62 per cent believed that it would not end for at least one or more years.3

Since I am finding it harder and harder to even score an interview, I might just as well put a bullet through my head than continue.