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Fort Lauderdale, Florida (PRESS RELEASE – August 10, 2010) – The SFN Group Employee Confidence Index dropped 3.2 points to 48.4 in July.

The index, which measures workers’ confidence in their personal employment situation and optimism in the economic environment, decreased as a result of more workers being concerned about the economy, job availability, and their personal employment situation.

The UCLA Anderson Forecast makes the case for a tepid recovery from the national recession, with unemployment levels slowly declining.

Reston, VA (PRESS RELEASE – January 28, 2010) – comScore (NASDAQ : SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today reported holiday season retail e-commerce spending for the entirety of the November – December 2009 holiday season.

For the full holiday online shopping season, $29.1 billion was spent online, marking a 4-percent increase versus the same period last year.

The season featured distinct periods of strong spending growth surrounding the Thanksgiving-Black Friday timeframe and the final shopping week leading up to Christmas.

On the verge of the recession business bankruptcy rates and national unemployment levels were steady. But in late 2007, these numbers quickly began to inflate.

Businesses across the country filed bankruptcy and in the process, carried away millions of American jobs.

The recession is over. But what replaces it may well be a "different kind of expansion" — one with pokey growth and painful unemployment levels.

(PRESS RELEASE - San Francisco, CA - July 6, 2009) – BizBuySell.com, the Internet’s largest marketplace for buying or selling a small business, today released economic data for the second quarter of 2009 that suggests small business-for-sale transactions and valuations have continued to decline as a result of the struggling economy.