25% of 139 million U.S. workers have lost a job during this "Great Recession"!

[Better Believe It]

Survey of employed finds 25 percent lost a job during recession
By Michael A. Fletcher
September 3, 2010

Just over a quarter of the nation's 139 million currently employed workers endured a bout of unemployment during the Great Recession, according to results of a Pew Research Center survey released Thursday. And they tend to be less satisfied in their current jobs than are other workers.

Re-employed workers were more likely than others to see themselves as overqualified for their jobs, and six in 10 said they either changed careers or seriously considered doing so while they were out of work.

Pew's survey of re-employed workers was taken as the nation endures the longest bout of long-term unemployment since World War II. Almost 45 percent of the nation's 14.6 million jobless Americans have been unemployed for at least six months.

The Pew poll also found that many re-employed workers' new jobs did not last long. More than one-third of those surveyed suffered two or more periods of unemployment during the recession, and one in six was thrown out of work three or more times.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/02/AR2010090204956.html

[madrchsod]

1. why i`d say that just a tad bit above a depression....

well it is a depression for all those who have lost their jobs and worse..their hope.

[chill_wind]

2. The supremely comfortable

would deny it's even a near depression: "It's a temper tantrum."

[area51]

3. Kick. n/t

[Brickbat]

4. What a fucking nightmare.

[Merlot]

5. No one addresses all the small business owners who lost their business

all the self employed and consultants who no longer have clients. When you add those people into the mix, it's really scary. Those people don't get unemployment insurance so they don't even show up.

[OhioChick]

6. K&R n/t