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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-19-10 04:34 AM Original message |
Jobs: how does this recession compare to others? |
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notesdev (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-19-10 04:56 AM Response to Original message |
1. Roughly eyeballing the trends |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-19-10 05:49 AM Response to Original message |
2. I don't remember 99 weeks of unemployment during any other recession I lived through |
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DailyGrind51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-19-10 05:53 AM Response to Original message |
3. We really need a WPA for 2010, and a repeal of NAFTA and GAT! |
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blindpig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-19-10 06:56 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Yes, but we'll never see that. |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-19-10 10:11 AM Response to Reply #3 |
9. +1 |
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eilen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-19-10 06:08 AM Response to Original message |
4. Personally speaking, this one is way worse than any other |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-19-10 06:23 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. yep. the reagan recession was bad, but it didn't hit public employees that hard. |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-19-10 08:56 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Two years into Reagan's term the unemployment rate hit 10.8 % |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-19-10 01:36 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. I remember it too. I also lived through it & my brother almost went homeless because |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-20-10 08:22 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. What used to pay the wages for all those people in public jobs that are getting cut? |
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eilen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu May-20-10 08:08 AM Response to Reply #7 |
11. Yea, jobs were really tight when I graduated HS in 1983. |
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dmallind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed May-19-10 10:10 AM Response to Original message |
8. Anybody notice how the upward trends mirror the downward? |
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