Nine facts about the Great Recession and tools for fighting the next downturn

Between December 2007 and June 2009 the United States experienced the most severe recession in the postwar period. The over 4 percent decline in gross domestic product (GDP) was only reversed more than three years after the beginning of the recession. During the worst part of the Great Recession, virtually every segment of the U.S. economy was adversely affected. Employment losses were severe, but also unevenly distributed: men, the young, and the less educated suffered disproportionately in the recession’s aftermath.

Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

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Ryan Nunn

Assistant Vice President for Applied Research in Community Development - Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

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Lauren Bauer

Fellow - Economic Studies

Associate Director - The Hamilton Project

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David Boddy

Research Assistant

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Greg Nantz

Senior Research Assistant & Publications Coordinator, The Hamilton Project