Bringing back jobs will take time, economist says

BOARDMAN — The recession is over but restoring the jobs that were lost will take time, an economist said.

The nation’s number of jobs won’t return to pre-recession levels until December 2012, predicted Ned Hill, dean of the college of urban affairs at Cleveland State University.

“The recession ended sometime between June and August of this past summer. It just doesn’t feel like it,” Hill said this morning at the Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber’s economic forecast breakfast at Mr. Anthony’s.

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