Baby boom Quote by Janet Yellen

The Great Recession is not imaginary, and the effects loom large. There was an article in the NYT about the galloping death rate among…

— Rick Moody

It was a recession when I graduated, but I was so unequipped to have a job anyway, I don't think it would have mattered…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

A recession is predominantly for the middle class. Where I come from, the majority of people have always lived in a recession.

— Curtis Jackson

To qualify as a recession, economic activity must decline in an absolute sense; a mere slowdown in real growth is not enough.

— Edgar Fiedler

When the average person is being financially squeezed, they cut back on spending, demand goes down and businesses have to lay people off. That's…

— Touker Suleyman

There has been a noticeable decline in the labor factor in all wealthy countries in the past 20 years. The rich are getting richer,…

— Kenneth Rogoff

I think people have to remember where we were in 2009. We were losing 800,000 jobs a month. We had an unemployment rate in…

— Tom Vilsack

I'm astonished at how quickly the Great Recession came and went.

— Mary Pilon

The first of America's 79 million baby boomers turned 60 this month. Time flies when you're growing old.

— Craig Wilson

In the five years since the end of the Great Recession, the economy has made considerable progress in recovering from the largest and most…

— Janet Yellen

“Less apparent at the time, but in many ways more problematic, were deep-seated structural developments in the work force. By the late 1960s millions…

— James T. Patterson

The labor movement had been pretty much killed in the 1920s, almost destroyed. It revived in the 1930s and made a huge difference. By…

— Noam Chomsky