We now must wait until baby has been born before she can get back into the workforce. Particularly tricky as I must postpone my university studies (I'm a Ph.D candidate) to get into the workforce to cover the sudden loss of her income (she was primary breadwinner).

I know this is a bit off topic, but my advice to any preganant women out there is this: don't tell anyone at work. Deny it for as long as possible if people start asking if you're pregnant. You have nothing to gain and everything to lose by disclosing this information.

And it will get worse.

If a Democrat gets elected the multinationals will get taxed and money printed which will ease things for awhile and then they will crash as they must since we did nothing to fix the economy.

If McCain gets elected then we fight wars of empire and do not change what we are doing so instead of a steep up followed by a crash we get an even slide further dowards.

As much as I'd like to see the social reform of Ron Paul, his pure Austrian economic model would have tanked what remains of our economy good.

There is a solution. Fix what we are doing and then use nationalization as a driver for productivity: in order. We did exactly that when confronted with a Cold War. Check out some of the articles at The Paleo Conservatist. I read them.

Nature has a way of cleaning itself. If you actually stop, close your eyes and think about all this crap we've created, you will understand why we need a deep cleaning and you wont be shocked when it comes.

One quibble is that almost all Gen Y'ers, at least those out of school now, have only had experience in bad economies. Most of us graduated in 2001 or later (or not at all yet), hardly boom times. Job-hopping has become something of a necessity for us rather than anything strategic, but I agree with your premise that in the long-run we're better off for it. Once the masters of the universe figure out that our parents and grandparents are overpaid and overhoused, things will actually start looking better for us. We've been able to thrive in what is arguably the worst economic situation since at least the 1970's, some people are saying the 1930's, once there is an actual labor shortage the demand seen now will seem like lean times.

I had hoped that link may show, please forgive the double post
Karen

1 - There are 1 MILLION Less jobs that were added to the economy in 2007 - than there was in 2006 - that is More than Half the number of jobs - Every year we have More People ENTERING the Workforce, than we have Jobs for them..

2- Generation Y makes up a LARGER demographic population than Boomers - by the Mass Millions, and the last boomer is Not expected to Retire until 2037 - wow, by then Gen y's kids will have entered into the market

3- 85 Percent of boomers are not retiring which is Affecting the workforce

4 - we have more jobs being given to foreign entities and H1 rather than given to qualified talent.. thus we are unreasonably displacing our own workers

5 - AS LONG as salaries continue to fall, 4 times in the last 5 years, we can determine that there Is NOT and is Going to be a War for talent

THE RECESSION which started last year HAS ALREADY affected employment..

People Please LOOK at the Payroll numbers.. Jobs Per thousand ! those are the ONLY Accurate information that one should use to determine the job market crisis

Karen Mattonen

The national Job Security Index has been going down for a few months now, so it's time for some of us to get worried.

–Ken–