What’s the Damage? Before, During and After the Great Recession

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Slides from the Resolution Foundation event What's the damage? The impact of the great recession on the jobs market in Britain and America — and the prospects for a recovery on 14 November 2013. Full details at http://res-fdn.org/1gtn9o8

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What’s the Damage? Before, During and After the Great Recession

Jared Bernstein

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

11/14/13

[email protected]

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When Cyclical Morphs into Structural: the Fed’s (and other realists) Latest

Concern

Source: Reifschneider, Wascher, and Wilcox, 2013

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Actual and Projected US Deficits as a Percent of GDP, 2001-2023

Source: CBPP based on Congressional Budget Office, May 2013 baseline.

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