Recession Stories
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Sarah: Temp to Perm? Will her normally sure-fire path to a permanent job work this time around?
Serena: For Want of a Degree . . . : She’s spent 22 years as a successful contract manager, available 24/7, yet it’s as if none of that experience counts.
Louis G.: All the Right Moves After losing his job in April, Louis G. is doing everything right – and landed a new job two months later.
Bianca L: “What’s a Fiftysomething to Do?” After 20 years of freelancing, Bianca knew how to land on her feet when times got tough. This time around, there’s no safe place to land.
Margi Brownfield Swett: “Employees Are Our Partners” When the economy crashed in early 2009, Margi and husband Steve didn’t lay off employees. They did quite the opposite.
Coming soon: more stories of others who are also “struggling through the recession.” Meanwhile, download Sen. Bernie Sanders’s booklet of the same name.
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