Comments on: Faces of the recession in San Francisco http://markfollman.com/2009/03/04/faces-of-the-recession-in-san-francisco/ bits of politics, media, culture and California Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:18:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: David Benfell http://markfollman.com/2009/03/04/faces-of-the-recession-in-san-francisco/#comment-452 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 03:06:36 +0000 http://markfollman.com/?p=443#comment-452 Sasha and Mark,

You can find unemployment breakdowns by county on the EDD web site at http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/?PAGEID=1006 . They’re not as detailed as the Bureau of Labor Statistics data and I’m assuming they’re using the same flawed methodologies.

]]> By: Back to the Future « Generation X Raising Generation O http://markfollman.com/2009/03/04/faces-of-the-recession-in-san-francisco/#comment-23 Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:21:48 +0000 http://markfollman.com/?p=443#comment-23 [...] The last bit has nothing to do with money.   Rather, it seems to me that my children may very well grow up with the shadow of economic instability, recession, a legacy of greed and mismanagement that destablized what was, not so very many years ago, a stable and prosperous economy.  Should it take 10 years or so to pull out of this mess, they may live a good chunk of their childhood, into adolescence with the specter of a trembling economy.  They’ll see boarded up businesses, too many houses for sale, long lines of unemployed. [...]

]]> By: markfollman http://markfollman.com/2009/03/04/faces-of-the-recession-in-san-francisco/#comment-22 Sat, 07 Mar 2009 06:40:03 +0000 http://markfollman.com/?p=443#comment-22 Hey Sasha— also mentioned at the EDD meeting: apparently the Bay Area tends to lag in terms of entering a downturn, and lags getting back out. I’d be curious to know the figures if you dig them up…

]]> By: Sasha http://markfollman.com/2009/03/04/faces-of-the-recession-in-san-francisco/#comment-21 Sat, 07 Mar 2009 02:44:48 +0000 http://markfollman.com/?p=443#comment-21 Wow–it has not been clear to me the extent to which San Francisco has been hit by the recession in terms of job loss. I will to find the abstract figures now–

]]> By: julie http://markfollman.com/2009/03/04/faces-of-the-recession-in-san-francisco/#comment-20 Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:40:09 +0000 http://markfollman.com/?p=443#comment-20 This is a real eye opener. Thank you for sharing your observations.

]]> By: Eilene http://markfollman.com/2009/03/04/faces-of-the-recession-in-san-francisco/#comment-19 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:53:27 +0000 http://markfollman.com/?p=443#comment-19 What a picture of the situation, eh? That last quote says it all. I posted a link on my Facebook page, well done. — Eilene

]]> By: markfollman http://markfollman.com/2009/03/04/faces-of-the-recession-in-san-francisco/#comment-18 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:52:56 +0000 http://markfollman.com/?p=443#comment-18 The nice woman running the meeting said she’d been working at EDD for 41 years. Kind of amazing. She said she’d been there through four recessions, and that ‘the good news’ is that we always get out of them. But she said this one was the worst she’d seen…

]]> By: Arne http://markfollman.com/2009/03/04/faces-of-the-recession-in-san-francisco/#comment-17 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:45:07 +0000 http://markfollman.com/?p=443#comment-17 My grandma used to run meetings like that at ED. she wrote several books about job searching for youth. I think she would be very sad if she were still here.

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