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<p>Webb Wheel Products President Duane Ricketts is pictured in front a portion of their inventory of brake drums in Cullman, Ala. ?Everyone is waiting for the unemployment rate to drop, but I don't know if it will much,? Ricketts says. ?Companies in the recession learned to be more efficient, and they're not going to go back.</p>

<p>Webb Wheel Products President Duane Ricketts is pictured in front a portion of their inventory of brake drums in Cullman, Ala. ?Everyone is waiting for the unemployment rate to drop, but I don't know if it will much,? Ricketts says. ?Companies in the recession learned to be more efficient, and they're not going to go back.</p>

January 24, 2013

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Recession, technology kill jobs
January 24, 2013 8 p.m.

Recession, technology kill jobs

NEW YORK - Five years after the start of the Great Recession, the toll is terrifyingly clear: Millions of middle-class jobs have been lost in developed countries the world over.