Budget Cuts Will Hurt the Economy
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 11th, 2011 4:31 am by HL
Budget Cuts Will Hurt the Economy
Obama Is Not Providing the Leadership Needed
The End of the “Man-Cession”
Michael Barone, Washington Examiner
Some of us called it the man-cession. In the deep recession that lasted from December 2007 to June 2009, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, many more men than women lost their jobs. The imbalance was huge. The Bureau of Labor Statistics showed a decline of 5.4 million jobs for men versus 2.1 million for women. So 71 percent of job losses were absorbed by men.If the numbers had been the other way around, you surely would have seen a lot of newspaper and magazine stories about women as the victims of the recession — the kind of stories with headlines reading “Women,…