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.
Issue Brief #374. The Great Recession officially began in December 2007 and ended in June 2009, making the upcoming release of December 2013 employment and unemployment data the six-year anniversary of the Great Recessionâs beginning and the four-and-a-half-year anniversary of its end.