Recession Takes Toll On White-Collar Workers

minyanville.com:

In past American recessions, when the US still had a healthy manufacturing economy, blue-collar workers often suffered the worst unemployment. And though this time such blue-collar trades -- especially ones focused on housing construction -- have also suffered greater unemployment than the national average, our current recession may represent a paradigm shift: "Creative" types have also been hit hard by the crisis.

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