[JoSixChip]

Are we sure this is not a case of lowering expectations so they can claim some kind of victory if they are not that bad. Whatever it is I can tell you, having been looking for a job over a year now, that it is bad out there. Go through a drive through, collage educated burger flippers and accountants running the registers. No one is expanding and when they fill a vacated position there are literally thousands of applicants. I myself have applied for lots of jobs I am clearly over qualified for only to receive a response saying they have better qualified candidates.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

Are we sure this is not a case of lowering expectations so they can claim some kind of victory if they are not that bad.

That's what I think is happening. The government is already hiring the (temp) census workers, so I can't see any reason for overall jobless numbers to have gone up in February.

Whatever it is I can tell you, having been looking for a job over a year now, that it is bad out there.

I hope you find something.

[jennyjenny]

You’re right, unfortunately. I can’t tell you the number of highly educated, previously successful people I know who have not been able to find work. It’s horrible.

[reagan_fanatic]

Go through a drive through, collage educated burger flippers and accountants running the registers

I know what you mean.

My Son works for a national cartridge refilling company. In better times, their applicants would be high school graduates and the like. In the last year, many of them have come from former John Deere and Alcoa workers - people who were making $20 or more an hour and are college educated.

I think it's a lot worse than most people realize.