10 years after the recession began, have Americans recovered?

It's been ten years since the start of the Great Recession.

That's an arbitrary anniversary, sure. But downturns need beginnings, and the National Bureau of Economic Research decided this one happened in December 2007, when employment peaked and started to head south -- for two long years.

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