Sentences with phrase «height of the recession»

Graduating at height of the recession, Betsy took her first sales job with Nordstrom.

PR WEB — June 4 — At the end of last year, from October through December — the very height of the recession — The Right One and Together Dating experienced an 18 % increase in new memberships from the same time period the year before.

FORTUNE: You launched Romulus Capital in 2008 at the height of the recession.

The outlook for the Milwaukee restaurant AJ Bombers looked bleak at the height of the recession in 2008.

At the height of the recession, the Conference Board of Canada found that consumer confidence dropped to levels unseen since the early 1980s recession.

That worked in Romero's favor during the height of the recession because the students never stopped coming.

TERM SHEET: You got into venture capital in 2008 at the height of the recession.

At the height of the recession, Statistics Canada found that self - employment among Canadians 55 and over had increased by more than 100,000 individuals.

Even in 2010 at the height of the recession when national unemployment hovered near 9.8 %, Virginia stayed below the national average at 7.3 %.

And during the height of the recession in 2008 and early 2009 many brands saw an INCREASE in gross sales for a short period of time because consumers went out in droves to buy up goods at steep discounts.

Over the years that number has gone from more than $ 3 million to zero — when it was cut at the height of the recession in 2009.

The same report last year showed a mild drop in CEO pay at the height of the recession.

The lower Hudson Valley performed the poorest, regaining less than 14 % of jobs lost during the height of the recession.

The millionaires» surcharge was first imposed in 2009, at the height of the recession, when Democrats controlled both houses of the Legislature.

It won a total of 6 per cent of the vote in last summer's European elections, the height of the recession and the hysteria over MPs» expenses.

At the height of the recession in 2008 - 2009, the Food Bank of Central New York saw a 12 percent increase in the number of meals requested across its 11 - county service area.

Some Democrats said Suozzi has his work cut out for him to win back voters who ousted him at the height of the recession.

Katherine, 34, and Sophie, 35, made a risky move — they gave up their stable jobs in fashion and finance at the height of the recession to pursue their childhood dream — opening a bakery.

Katherine: We started our business during the height of the recession and it was impossible for us to secure any financing.

At the height of the recession, Pope, then an assistant principal of Northside Elementary in Clinton, had to trim her staff.

The return of subprime credit, which virtually disappeared during the height of the recession, was propping up car sales in the U.S., Westcott says.

The SEMA Annual Market Report, available exclusively to SEMA members, estimates there were $ 31.32 billion in retail sales in 2012, up from less than $ 28 billion during the height of the recession in 2009.

Right now, nobody is expecting these to be on anything like the scale of those deployed during the height of the recession, but it is hoped that relatively modest steps could correct the downward trend.

At the height of the recession in 2008, I was laid off from my video editing job of eight years.

The number of lawsuits filed over delinquent student loans that were made by private lenders has increased significantly in the past two years, lawyers told The Associated Press, even though borrowers are missing payments much less often than they did during the height of the recession.

When we graduated in May 2009, the economy was at the height of the recession.

At the height of the recession, home - buyers snatched up short sales, properties that sell for less than the previous owner owes the bank.

While the results haven't been back - tested historically, in 2008 at the height of the recession, operating revenue of many cardboard box manufacturers averaged a 50 % drop.

At the height of the recession, in 2008, Marshall Reese and Nora Ligorano installed «ECONOMY» in front of the Supreme Court in Lower Manhattan.

The 50,000 square foot sustainable - community center was built in May 2009 despite it being the height of the recession.

Even during the height of recession and the collapse of the auto industry in this area, cost of car insurance premiums in Roseville, Michigan did not dramatically go down.

In 2007, a total of 16,014 students enrolled in construction related courses, at the height of the recession many of those graduates were forced to emigrate in order to secure employment.

At the height of the recession in 2009, when there was a deluge of graduate job seekers, our annual survey showed that a number of employers still couldn't fill all their vacancies.

But this time was different: He was returning to an industry he had abandoned five years prior and at the height of a recession that pitted him against thousands of similar job seekers.

In 2009, my job was eliminated due to downsizing, along with quite a few others on a surprise layoff at the height of the recession.

The data also showed the biggest drop in percent of children living in poverty in the last 5 years — since the height of the recession.

Reforming the Federal Child Care System: President Obama has taken consistent steps to improve the early care and education available to families through the Child Care and Development Fund, investing more than $ 2 billion to assist hundreds of thousands of children and families at the height of the recession.

While this new social media study shows the frequency of LinkedIn visits decreasing since the height of the recession in 2010 (67 percent weekly and 22 percent daily visits), the percentage of people who deem LinkedIn the most important social networking site jumped dramatically from 41 percent last year to 59 percent this year.

A new Pew Research Center study of U.S. Census Bureau data showed that in the first part of 2015, 26 percent of millennials lived with their parents, which is up from 22 percent in 2007 at the height of the recession, and 24 percent in 2010, at the start of the economic recovery.

Even in 2010 at the height of the recession when national unemployment hovered near 9.8 %, Virginia stayed below the national average at 7.3 %.