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 ...

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.

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 ...

Answer: not so well. I added some red recession shading to the CBPP chart on the right, and as you can see, the Great Recession created an extra 1.5 million families with children in poverty.

For comparison, both of these unemployment rates are still higher than the 10% unemployment rate in 2009 at the peak of the Great Recession. All older generations, per the chart, currently have ...

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 ...