Agencies had not been filling positions to soften the blow on workers, but cuts are still expected to affect approximately ...

Further, it was the highest number of layoffs for the month of February since 2009, in the middle of the financial crisis and subsequent Great Recession, when more than 186,000 layoffs were announced.

the highest since 2009, when the economy was at the tail end of the Great Recession. More than half of those cuts were in Washington, D.C., reflecting the federal government layoffs. Thousands of ...

Between mass layoffs ... word”: recession. These financial experts are so terrified of a potential recession that they refer to it obliquely, in the same superstitious way your Great-Aunt ...

While the city has resolved its budget deficits without layoffs since 2013, council members ... with widespread layoffs stems from the Great Recession — a severe nationwide economic downturn ...