It’s the Jobs Stupid: Why There will be no Recovery until Employment Stabilizes. When Obvious Financial Truth Becomes Uncommon. New Nurses Competing with Old Nurses for Hours Because of Gender Unemployment.
It should be rather obvious that without any sustained job growth there will be no economic recovery. In the same breath, you will have someone tell you that this is no common recession yet when it comes to talking about the stock market they will tell you that in normal times, stocks recover before jobs. […]
Bankruptcy Filings up 33 Percent over a 12-month Period: Total 12-month Total of Bankruptcy Filings 1.2 Million. In last Report, Filings up 27 Percent in one month.
Bankruptcy filings are soaring in the United States. In the last data point, we had 134,282 bankruptcy filings for the month of March 2009. Bankruptcy data usually lags 3 or 4 months but the trend is ominous. For the last 12 months some 1.2 million bankruptcy filings have occurred. Much of this is linked to […]
The Second Derivative: Employment and the Mounting Job Losses. Measuring the Velocity of Job Cuts in the Current Recession.
In addressing the unemployment situation it is important to look at the velocity of job losses. In January of 2009 we had a stunning 741,000 jobs lost in one month. This by far was the biggest one month cut during the current recession but it wasn’t the biggest one month change. The worst month came […]
Employment Situation: Job Anti-Growth – A Decade with Zero Net Added Jobs. 131 Million Nonfarm Payroll Employment in June of 2000. 131 Million Nonfarm Payroll Employment in June of 2009. 6,460,000 job losses since start of Recession.
The so-called second half recovery got off to a rocky start. The market was expecting 367,000 job losses for the month of June but instead got 100,000 more than expected. The market quickly turned sour as 26,000,000 Americans are now unemployed or underemployed in the job market. Yet what is even more troubling is the […]