Marre, Alexander W.; Pender, John L.; Monchuk, Daniel C. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
In December 2007 the U.S. economy entered a depression and unemployment surged to highs not seen in 30 years. The first part of this paper uses the most recently available data from BLS to examine the geography of the recession. We focus on the similarities and differences in the recession’s...