Worst Jobs Recovery

We were kind of amused over our year-end break to see that the lame-duck 111th U.S. Congress' Joint Economic Committee proclaiming that "the recovery from the Great Recession continues, and is occurring more quickly than the recoveries from the 2001 and 1990-1991 recessions."

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