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NewsFlash: December 13, 2006

Weakest jobs recovery on record

This is the fifth year of the current economic recovery which began in November 2001.  In this week’s Snapshot, EPI senior economist Jared Bernstein finds that job growth over this recovery is the slowest of the three previous recoveries lasting at least as long as the current expansion.