As if that's not the case now?! How many people who have been laid-off recently actually found a new job making equal or better pay than the one they were laid-off from?
I lost my job last fall, still have had no luck finding anything, and I have no realistic hope whatsosever of ever again earning the kind of 6-figure income I made from my last job. So even when I do find new work, I'll become a positive employment statistic but it will still be a net loss for the economy because I'm downwardly-mobile (as is pretty much the whole country).
There is no recovery!
I will be lucky to find a job making a third of what I made before doing the work of multiple people who were also laid off. If I could get a response to a resume that is.
Where are these burger jobs? I can cook.