The recovery has been great for Wall Street, Government Workers and the politically connected.
For everyone else, not so much.
Wall Street itself isn’t doing well (in terms of jobs); many of them have gone to Asia, and it has left a lot of unemployed workers with similar job skills all seeking work at the same time. As for the stock market, company stock prices do well any time layoffs of American workers are announced, so you could imagine what the recent gains are resulting from...