{"id":1026,"date":"2009-09-01T08:35:08","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T14:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2009-09-01T08:35:08","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T14:35:08","slug":"the-new-meaning-of-economic-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2009\/09\/01\/the-new-meaning-of-economic-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"the new meaning of economic recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"img-link\" title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by .Larry Page on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96029422@N00\/3877170540\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3505\/3877170540_3e9b94a397_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Filthy Lucre\" \/><\/a>On <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/businessdesk\/2009\/08\/sudhir-venkatesh-on-the-new-me.html\">PBS&#8217; NewsHour<\/a>, business correspondent Paul Solman sat down with sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh to talk about how even though the economy is inching toward &#8216;recovery&#8217; the perils of jobless and job-seeking Americans suggest a need for new metrics to evaluate economic recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Solman reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to Venkatesh, the days of a company giving someone a job for 10 years may be over; many American companies don&#8217;t know where they themselves will be in six months to a year. Instead, as companies hire more people for shorter periods of time, on a contract or freelance basis, we&#8217;ll need better ways to evaluate how this type of employment fits within our models of economic recovery.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/businessdesk\/2009\/08\/sudhir-venkatesh-on-the-new-me.html\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/businessdesk\/2009\/08\/sudhir-venkatesh-on-the-new-me.html\">Watch the video. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On PBS&#8217; NewsHour, business correspondent Paul Solman sat down with sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh to talk about how even though the economy is inching toward &#8216;recovery&#8217; the perils of jobless and job-seeking Americans suggest a need for new metrics to evaluate economic recovery. Solman reports: According to Venkatesh, the days of a company giving someone a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[36,131,143],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-labor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/1028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}