Employment is down here in New Zealand, they try to tell us we have turned a corner but who's leg are they trying to pull?
Thank goodness my husband and I are retired, I teach one half day a week now which suits me. In Canterbury where I live we suffered a huge earthquake a few weeks back so much damage to buildings over a wide area, so many folk lost not only their homes but there work places had to be pulled down too! There is an up side however and that is that all the tradesmen out of work are being employed again to rebuild all the damaged buildings, they say it will take years so I guess that is a blessing for some!
Gal