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 American recession is over. In the summer of 2009 real GDP and industrial production hit bottom and resumed growth, and expansion in both measures strengthened as the year ended. Industrial production has continued to grow in early 2010 as, in all likelihood, has output.