Job Growth: United States Worse Than Turkey

Patrick Allen | CNBC
The U.S. economy may have fared better than others over the last five years despite finding itself at the center of the 2008 financial crisis, but data from the OECD show the country's job market performed as badly as Iceland and Portugal.

"There have been large disparities in the evolution of employment rates across OECD countries since the start of the crisis," said the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development on Thursday.