Sentences with phrase «early years of the recession»

However, to put these stories of job market meltdown into perspective, this is what happened to the number of vacancies for full - time graduate jobs which came into the Careers Service at the University of Manchester over the early years of the recession and the preceding years:

Not exact matches

Further, the decline in housing starts and permits after the expiration of the $ 8000 housing credit was probably an important factor in the slowdown in GDP earlier this year, and as I wrote last week, probably plays a role in ECRI's recession call.

The most precipitous real estate crashes in Canada in the past 30 years — Calgary during the 1980s oil bust and Toronto in the early 1990s recession — resulted in losses of 25 % to 28 % in the average price of a house.

Earlier this year, a trend piece in The New York Times proclaimed «Men step out of the recession, bag on hip, bracelet on wrist.»

thanks, and yes, a pittance of a pension and regular checkups keep us on budget and head off any problems — best decision i ever made (financial or otherwise) was serving our country doing search - and - rescue, oil and chemical spill remediation, etc. (you can guess the branch of service)-- along the way, frugal living, along with dollar - cost averaging, asset allocation, and diversification allowed us to retire early — Vanguard has been very good over the years, despite the Dot Bomb, 2002, and the recession (where we actually came out better with a modest but bargain retirement home purchase)... it's not easy building additional «legs» on a retirement platform, but now that we're here, cash, real estate, investments and insurance products, along with a small pension all help to avoid any real dependence on social security (we won't even need it at full retirement age)-- however, like nearly everybody, we're headed for Medicare in several years, albeit with a nice supplemental and pharmacy benefits — but our main concern is staying fit, active, and healthy!

McDonald's stock fared well throughout the next 20 years, rising almost constantly up until the stock market crash and subsequent recession of the early 1990's.

One factor supporting the Australian dollar over the past couple of years has been that interest rates right across the yield curve in Australia, and perceived returns on other assets, have been higher than those in a number of other countries, particularly those which experienced a recession and a collapse of share prices in the early part of this decade.

His supporters might point out that the 9/11 attacks hurt the economy; that the recession that hit in March of 2001, his first year, probably really began earlier; and that the cost of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and against terrorism have further weakened the economy.

I also pointed out that Nigerian manufacturing was already in recession by then and noted that «all major macroeconomic indices are trending negative» including inflation, FX and capital markets, and jobs and warned that «the Nigerian economy exhibits recessionary conditions with Q2 growth approaching one - third of the level just one year earlier» and counselled that «the slide to an actual recession may still be averted with a strong economic team and sound policy».

While the influential body is not predicting a double - dip recession and expects the rate of growth to pick up later in the year, Lambert expresses concern about the early months of 2011.

The peak unemployment rates of the Great Recession hit in 2009 - 10, corresponding to Years 6 - 7 of the recent cohort and Years 14 - 15 of the earlier cohort.

One likely explanation for the across - the - board increase in parents» investing in their young children's learning is that parents today are just far more aware of the unique importance of the early childhood years in shaping their children's development... It also may be that the increase in parent - child interactions among low - income families has been driven, in part, by the shift of low - income children out of preschool programs and into parental care during the economic recession.

Although public schools may still feel the repercussions from the 2008 recession, federal data showed a significant upsurge in state and local education spending in the 2014 - 15 school year — an increase that, if it persists, could eventually restore four earlier years of deep budget cuts, according to an analysis by The Hechinger Report.

Hyundai's latest addition to its Assurance program, which helped put the automaker on the map during the early years of the great recession by offering similar deferment options, extends all auto loan and lease payments for Hyundai owners affected by the furloughs during the shutdown.

An amazing fact: after years of strong growth in the overall economy, the typical middle - class family is on shakier ground right now than it was at the end of the devastating recession of the early 1980s.

Earlier this year, the economy fell into the technical definition of a recession after it recoiled for two straight quarters.

While not considered high, it's the highest it's been since the Great Recession, and it could be an early sign of things to come in the next few years.

Based on the revisions, Statistics Canada now estimates that growth for last year came in at 1.1 per cent compared with its earlier reading of 1.2 per cent, its slowest pace since the 2009 recession.

The US military had ended the Gulf war a year earlier and the economy had just come out of a mild recession in the middle of 91».

Not surprisingly, given the depth of the recession, emissions of carbon dioxide from fuel burning in the United States declined 2.8 percent last year, the biggest annual drop since the early 1980's, according to a preliminary estimate released by the Energy Department on Wednesday.

The IEA notes that in 40 years of CO2 data collection, the three previous times emissions have flatlined or dropped from the prior year «all were associated with global economic weakness: the early 1980's [due to the oil shock and U.S. recession]; 1992 and 2009.»

Encouragingly, the growth in global emissions in 2015 and 2016 is the slowest since the early 1990s (except years of global economic recession), and global CO2 emissions from fossil fuel use and cement production remained stable in both 2015 and 2016.

The legal profession seems to have a short memory as we saw this same phenomenon after the recession in the early 1990s when there was a shortage of trainees for several years.»

That's the word from the American Institute of Architects» chief economist, Kermit Baker, who says 600 architects surveyed earlier this year also noted a greater emphasis on wireless technology, the result of increased telecommuting during the recession.

«While the recession started roughly 10 years ago, a return to this level of single - family construction is no cause for alarm for two major reasons: the market has completely different underlying economics now, and housing starts in October 2007 had already declined by half from their peak levels in early 2006.»

It took nine years to see a turn around begin after the recession of the early 90's, only to see the market may be on the verge of toppling again with expenses often outdoing the income stream.

One was the recession of the early 1990s, which resulted in a five - year period when few people entered the industry.