The headline to this post — “It’s Official: We’re in a Recession” — from The Washington Post’s Ticker blog may be accurate, but it really isn’t very surprising. The economy has been sputtering like an over-stressed engine for a long time and most of us in the working world have been feeling stuck on the highway for a long, long time already.
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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.
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