64%
Small-business owners who say that the way they run their businesses will be “forever changed as a result of the recession”
Citibank Small Business Banking Survey, August 2010
5.2%
Increase in Pending Home Sales Index based on contracts signed in July
National Association of Realtors
27.1 million
Number of appliance units shipped during the first five months of 2010, up 2.5% compared with January-May 2009
Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers
450,000
Number of seasonally adjusted applications for state unemployment benefits
U.S. Dept. of Labor