With a civilian labor force approaching 4.5 million, New Jersey has finally recovered the jobs that were lost during the “great recession” of 2007- 2009, which officially ended, statistically at least, in 2012. But even as the unemployment rate is 4.5 percent, the numbers cannot mask the troubling structural changes in the economy that have occurred over this time. More at EANJ Blog: https://www.eanj.org/blog