If you’ve been waiting for a better time to find a job or buy a home, brace yourself: Things might not get much better anytime soon.
Two years ago, I wrote about an economy divided between Americans who’d locked in jobs and homes when conditions were favorable versus those who didn’t. The hiring boom had become a hiring slump, while mortgage rates and home prices had both risen considerably.
Two years later, finding a job or buying a home hasn’t gotten much easier, outside of a few pockets of opportunity. US businesses are hiring at roughly the same rate as they were two years ago — near the lowest level since the Great Recession. Home…
