Answer: None of the above. You can't claim it ended when we lost another 263k jobs last month.
For an economics expert, you surprise me with your ignorance. Don't you know that job growth is often a lagging indicator of an economic recovery? This is basic stuff that I assumed you already knew...
The job numbers have to be better to have any sort of reasonable talk of a recovery. The job numbers for this decade in general, and this recession in particular have been terrible. 263k a month in losses are nowhere near the 150k in gains that would be needed to keep up with normal growth in the labor pool (if people weren't so discouraged).
I mean, sure a "recovery" would be nice for those fat cats on Wall Street, but what is really important are to have the number of jobs to increase (and have those be decent jobs).
Sadly the time to have the job numbers recover to what they were at the beginning of a recession (without the increases necessary to take into account population growth) has been lengthening.
and one with the this recession a month ago
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