9 years after recession began, some states still unrecovered

in states •  8 years ago 

Call them the unrecovered—a handful of states where job markets, nine years later, are still struggling back to where they were before the recession.

That's true in Mississippi, where job numbers and the overall size of the economy remain below 2008 levels. Unlike states that have long since sprinted ahead, Mississippi is struggling with slow economic growth and slipping population in a place that's rarely at peak economic health.

Read more here: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/19/9-years-after-recession-began-some-states-still-unrecovered.html

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There was never a true recovery. It was merely wallpapered over with more and more debt. Government debt, corporate debt, personal debt, are all very high. The supposed recovery is an illusion.