Secretary [edit]. The Secretary of State is elected for a four-year term, concurrent with that of the governor. Candidates are nominated at partisan conventions. Under the state Constitution, the Secretary of State is restricted to two four-year terms in that office.
1 The employment decline experienced during the December 2007âJune 2009. recession was greater than that of any recession of recent decades. Forty-seven. months after the start of the recession that began in November 1973, for example, employment was more than 7 percent higher than it had been when the recession. started.
The United States economy has lost more jobs than it has added since the recovery began in June a year ago. 1:50 p.m. | Updated. The recession officially ended in June 2009, according to the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the official arbiter of such dates.