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.
However, the Great Recession has only poured salt into the industry's wounds. Since the recession began in December 2007, more than 2 million manufacturing jobs have disappeared. The durable goods sector accounted for three-fourths of this decline with 1.6 million losses. During the last six months of 2009, the industry saw an average loss of 41,000 jobs a month.