Monday, August 10, 2009

This is how an economic recovery looks???

(This is a replacement for the post that I accidentally deleted when I meant to edit it.)

* In July 247,000 Americans lost their jobs.

*July was the 19th month in a row of net job losses.

*Since the start of 2008, 6.7 million jobs have been lost.

*A record 5 million people have been unemployed for more than 6 months.

*The unemployed have been jobless for an average 25.1 weeks, a 61-year high.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

another stat: 1 in 9 Americans is on food stamps.

Florence said...

Morrison, I apologize for deleting your excellent response with my inept attempt to correct the grammar in my original post. (I've come close to accidentally deleting the entire blog once...LOL)