The Serious Cost of a Slow Economic Recovery

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The Serious Cost of a Slow Economic Recovery

By Keith Hall |
Sep 11, 2012

The weakest economic recovery on record seems to be slowing down. Job creation, tepid at best over the past three years, has now fallen back to just 87,000 per month since March. Just 58.3 percent of us have work of any sort, a range we hadn't seen before this recession since the early 1980s, when less than half of women in the United States held a job. The Federal Reserve has been clearly signaling thei