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Topic: Great Recession (page 11)

Homeless men sleep on benches while job seekers register at the 10th annual Skid Row Career Fair held at the Los Angeles Mission downtown Los Angeles Thursday, June 2, 2011. Employers hired only 54,000 new workers in May, the fewest in eight months, and the unemployment rate rose to 9.1 percent.(AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) (Damian Dovarganes)

We are alarmingly close to a double-dip recession

President Barack Obama and former president Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Zombie housing lies eat fact-checker brains

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In this May 3, 2011 photo, job seekers wait in line for a job fair to open, in Independence, Ohio. The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits surged last week to the highest level in eight months, a sign the job market may be weakening.(AP Photo/Tony Dejak) (AP)

Why Washington must deal with the economy -- now

Christopher S. Rugaber

Michelle Sparking

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Workers form a picket line at a Waste Management Inc. facility in Seattle, Wednesday, April 21, 2010. Seattle-area garbage workers represented by Teamsters union Local 174 went on strike Wednesday morning. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) (Ted S. Warren)

The author as a child with her father

The author outside her home in Oregon.

Sen. Sean Duffy

Mary Elizabeth Williams

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Demonstrators protest against the coalition government spending cuts as they march in London, Saturday, March 26, 2011. Some tens of thousands of mostly peaceful demonstrators streamed into central London on Saturday to march against government budget cuts, with a small breakaway group of demonstrators smashing its way into a bank, breaking windows and spray painting logos on the walls, as police struggle to contain the situation. (AP Photo/Akira Suemori) (AP)

Alyssa Battistoni

Former Federal Reserve Board chairman Alan Greenspan listens to opening statements as he testifies before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 7 , 2010. Making it easier for poorer Americans to get mortgages didn't push the country into crisis but Wall Street's drive to package the loans into opaque securities helped do so, Greenspan said on Wednesday. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS IMAGES OF THE DAY) (Â© Kevin Lamarque / Reuters)

In this Feb. 9, 2011 photo, a house for sale is shown in Mt. Lebanon, Pa. More people bought previously occupied homes in January, but sales surged on a rising number of foreclosures and all-cash deals. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) (AP)

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Marilyn Stevens

"Punching Out" by Paul Clemens

The last days of a Detroit auto plant

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Christy Corp-Minamiji

In this Dec. 15, 2010 photo, Jesse Paloger holds up a sign while standing on Wall Street as he hopes to find a job, in New York. Paloger, who has an accounting and economics degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara, has written on the bottom of his sign, "Go-getter from California looking for my shot!" Fewer people applied for unemployment benefits last week, the third drop in the past four weeks and a sign that the job market is slowly improving. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) (AP)

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