The Great Recession of ... But just as the recession hit some states harder than others, birthrates generally declined more in states most affected by the slump. That’s illustrated by this chart, from ...

Five years since the end of the Great ... Recession, the private sector has finally regained the nine million jobs it lost. But not all industries recovered equally. Industries at the bottom of ...

It will probably be a long time before the NBER says exactly when this recession ended, but if they determine it ended now, it will have been a 20 month recession--the longest since the Great ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

That the Great Recession profited the wealthy has been ... finally exceeding others starting in late 2015. The graph shows that this is not an unusual pattern. In 2002 to 2004, everyone slid.

Pew Research has a good report up this week on child poverty during the great recession, based on data ... greater clip than Latinos’. Here’s a chart: It’s worth noting that poverty rates ...

Newsweek features Cristian Tiu about a potential American recession and its timeline. "In the best case scenario, we expect overseas businesses to move production to the U.S., and hire workers and ...

SimpleImages / Getty Images A recession is a significant, persistent, and widespread contraction in economic activity. Since the Great Depression, the United States has suffered 14 official ...

The economic impact of the tariffs imposed by the Trump administration will soon become apparent to everyday Americans and lead to a recession this summer, according to Apollo Global Management.

The longest recession in American history took place between 1929 and 1939. Known as the Great Depression, this economic crisis was noteworthy in terms of both its length and its severity.