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While December and January are still the highest drops in online job listings so far this recession (at just over 500,000 postings), February was a modest 6,600 and March jumped back up to 100,000 fewer job postings.
The March decline reported by the non-profit Conference Board …

According to Wikipedia, the United States Consumer Confidence Index is “the degree of optimism on the state of the economy that consumers are expressing through their activities of savings and spending.” It is issued monthly by the Conference board, an independent research group. It is …