Every recovery starts joblessBY BENJAMIN ONG | MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010 9:40AMJob gains may be slow in coming? But they are coming. And isn't this the experience from previous recessions? Jobs always lag the economic cycle. That's why every economic upturn is thought to be a jobless recovery. |
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