Job seeker Katherine Fuentes looks over job listings at the One-Stop Career Link Center February 25, 2009 in San Francisco, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
February layoffs take a toll
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The loss of jobs continues to worry the Obama administration and economists, not to mention workers who fear they'll be next. Those who look at jobs as a measure of recovery believe the recession has not hit bottom.
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Lisa Lynch: Labor economist and dean of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University.
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L. Randall Wray: Professor of economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City . He's also research director for the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability.
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Don Boudreaux: Chairman of the department of economics and senior education advisor at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.
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