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2016 Staffing Industry Economic AnalysisThe ASA 2016 Staffing Industry Annual Economic Analysis

How Much Runway Remains? While slowing, the staffing and recruiting industry continues to grow faster than jobs overall and the economy.

We’ve got lots of runway left!” That’s a declaration often made in casual conversations by confident business executives and economists. They are referring to the continued post-recession expansion of the U.S. economy. Now more than seven years old, the current expansion is 40% longer than the average of the growth periods since World War II. Dismal scientists (i.e., economists) unceasingly try—and fail—to predict recessions. Even though recessions are always on everyone’s economic horizon, enduring and painful contractions, when growth falls off a cliff, are not only impossible to predict, they are often undetected until the nation is in free fall.

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