tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12605192.post-21104023116816817162010-08-06T12:52:00.000-07:002010-08-06T12:53:47.019-07:00<p><a href="http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/cwed/wp/severe_crisis_jobs_us_ca_10.pdf" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/cwed/wp/images/cover_severe_crisis_jobs_us_ca_10_sm.jpg" alt="The Severe Crisis of Jobs in the United States and California" class="border" width="60" align="left" border="0" height="78" /></a></p> <h3><a href="http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/cwed/wp/severe_crisis_jobs_us_ca_10.pdf" target="_blank">The Severe Crisis of Jobs in the United States and California</a><img src="http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/images/acrodot.gif" width="11" height="10" /></h3>by Sylvia Allegretto, August 2010<br /><br />The economy needs jobs, jobs, jobs and more jobs—this is not news to the 25 million unemployed and underemployed workers who continue to bear the hardships of the Great Recession. Workers have grown weary and families once bending are now breaking under the strain. The severe crisis of jobs in the United States and, particularly, in California seems to be lost as austerity dominates the policy dialogue in Washington, DC. In California, another round of cuts and anti-stimulus measures are underway and they will move the state further away from recovery. The downturn has hit the state especially hard and given its size and importance in the U.S. economy it is hard to imagine a robust recovery without the Golden State.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/12605192-2110402311681681716?l=iirl-labor-economic-news.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Janice's Labor, Work, Economics News Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01140345268634031988noreply@blogger.com