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Carly Fiorina Backtracks on '92 Percent' Job Loss Claim
During the most recent GOP presidential debate, Carly Fiorina made a claim that 92% of the job losses in President…
Everyone Will Live With Their Parents Forever and Ever Amen
Six years after the economy shit the bed, let's check in with the "Boomerang kids." If you guessed "long-term cultural…
What the Recession Has Wrought: A Tampon-Less Middle Class
The rapidly unravelling American middle class has been super hard on big corporations. Who is going to buy their…
Most of Those Allegedly Great New Jobs for Women Are In Waitressing
We're well into what feels like our 129384712th consecutive month of articles harping on the notion that men are being…
The Recession Has Taken All the Fun and Extramarital Sex Out of Italy
Ah, August. As we learned through repeat viewings of The Seven Year Itch, it's really the perfect time for the married…
Impulse Buying During a Recession? Blame Your Upbringing.
It is each generation's hope that the next will do better. But a new study claims that your financial status while…
A College Degree Is Now Required of Basically Everyone
The way we live now: it takes a B.A. to find a job as a file clerk, according to the New York Times, which declared…
Women Are Still Losing Jobs in the Public Sector
A pretty blah jobs report came out today: the economy only added 80,000 jobs in June, and the unemployment rate is…
Irresponsible Brides-to-Be are Splurging on Weddings While Their Reasonable Beaus Prefer to Budget
Everyone (or anyone who has ever picked up a women's magazine, watched reality TV, gone to the movies, lived on this…
Licensed Professionals Have No Patience for Your Creative Pursuits
The recession is forcing Americans to get crafty with their careers and think outside the bureaucratic box. But…
Men And Women Shit Themselves About Unemployment Differently
The phrase "It's the economy," while an utterly valid excuse for many things, has become an awesome stock excuse for…
We’ve All Been Duped Into Thinking that Women Are Making More Money than Men
The urge for a jaunty news narrative about how women are overtaking men as family breadwinners has apparently, according
Beloved YA Author in War With Bank of America
Today in depressing housing-market news, YA author Francesca Lia Block could lose her home because the bank won't…
Slightly More Jobs For All, But Fewer Jobs For Women
The Labor Department announced Friday that employers added 227,000 jobs in February, slightly more than expected,…
Are Modern Dudes Reasserting Their Manliness Through 'Guy' Chores?
Men who work in female-dominated professions spend more time on "guy" chores like home repair, yard work, and car…
Is Generation Y Also Generation Cheap?
Now more than ever, college students are feeling the constraints of the current recession, though, with the vigor and…
Job Prospects For Women Improve From 'Shit' to 'Crap'
On the heels of the "man-cession" is the "he-covery," two neologisms similar in that they both pertain to men's…
Economy Forcing Men To Lower Themselves & Take Awful Ladyjobs
Remember the recession (or, alternately: he-cession, or man-cession, or The Great American Economic Cockblock) when no…
High Heels Are The New Lipstick Index
Hemlines are so over. The latest way to chart economic trends via women's fashion is farther south: heel height.