recession
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For example, economists polled in the Philadelphia Fed’s Livingston Survey, published in December 2007 as the recession began, projected that the economy would keep expanding through 2008, and put unemployment at 4.9% for 2009.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
By contrast, college-educated workers ages 22 to 34 years old have only seen worse unemployment in the past two decades during the pandemic and the economy’s slow rebound from the 2007-09 recession.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Young people and educators are returning to school amid national anxiety over a learning recession that researchers suggest dates back to 2013.
From Slate ● Sep. 5, 2026
Leading business experts and economists say that without Australia's data centre boom over the last couple of years, the country would likely have headed into a recession.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
The apparent recession of the galaxies, with the red shift interpreted through the Doppler effect, is not the only evidence for the Big Bang.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
Vocabulary lists containing recession
Western Europe - Introductory
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