During the Great Recession in the late 2000s, when unemployment jumped to 10% and home prices plunged an average of 30%, many ...

This unprecedented event had serious and costly repercussions, which we continue to feel today. In the aftermath of the crisis, the global economy entered a recession that we can rightly characterize ...

A generation of New Yorkers is paying a heavy price for a huge drop in unit production following the Great Financial Crisis.

From the time the Great Recession started in late 2007 until it officially ended in 2009, the richest 1 percent of America saw its income drop 36.3 percent, according to a new report by economists ...

We wanted to take a look at the impact the Great Recession had on the US auto industry, how it was transformed in its wake, ...

Chicago has seen more than 3 in 5 licensed businesses disappear during the past two decades. While the rest of the nation has ...

How long does it take to build a library in Appleton? Turns out, it's nearly 17 years. No one could have envisioned that 6,059 days would pass from July 15, 2008, when the Library Board first voted to ...

The story of Brooksley Born is not only the tale of a remarkable regulator whose Cassandra-like warnings — if heeded — could've prevented the great financial crisis from exploding into raging ...

There would have been 2.1 million more state and local government employees if their share of total employment had stayed the same since before the Great Recession. The underinvestment in public ...