At an orientation for the newly unemployed, lamenting layoffs and imagining fresh starts.
Data released by the state Labor Department shows that the recession has reached the leisure and hospitality industry, one of the city’s strongest economic sectors.
The effects of the financial crisis have spread beyond Wall Street to white-collar jobs, construction and retail.
The effects of the financial crisis have spread beyond Wall Street to other white-collar jobs and the construction and retail trades, a new report shows.
As businesses have begun cutting jobs, New York leads all states in the number of first-time unemployment claims.
Economists and analysts predict job cuts will be part of a large wave — already, New York leads all state in number of first-time unemployment claims.
Businesses across the New York region have begun eliminating jobs by the thousands as the pain of the financial crisis spreads well beyond Wall Street.