{"entry":{"title":"Government Layoffs Are Holding Back Recovery","date":"Wed, 06 Feb 2013 23:00:00 -0600","author":"Josh Bivens, New York Times","description":"
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Sixty-one months after the Great Recession began, and even 43 months after it officially ended, the U.S. labor market remains extraordinarily weak, with between 8 million and 9 million<\/a> jobs needed to restore the labor-market health of December 2007 (the last month before the recession began).<\/p>","original_link":"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/roomfordebate\/2013\/02\/06\/are-government-layoffs-the-problem\/government-layoffs-are-a-major-cause-of-persistent-unemployment"}}