How the Lehman Bros. crisis impacted the 2008 presidential race
How the economic disaster that occurred just weeks before Election Day changed the media’s campaign coverage, and perhaps the outcome, of the presidential race.
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How the economic disaster that occurred just weeks before Election Day changed the media’s campaign coverage, and perhaps the outcome, of the presidential race.
The National Archives released individual-level records from the 1940 Census for the first time on April 2. The waiting period is mandated by a federal law that protects the data for 72 years after the head count is completed.
Only about a third of Americans in a fall survey expected better economic conditions a year hence. By contrast, in the midst of the Great Depression, and with another downturn in the offing, half of Americans still expected general business conditions to improve over the next six months.
Roughly four-in-ten Americans who spent some time unemployed during the recession say they experienced a strain in family relations while out of work.
By roughly two-to-one, more say they have a generally negative rather than a generally positive impression of the 2000s.
Virtually no Democrats (2%) currently rate the nation’s economy as good or excellent, but Republicans are scarcely more upbeat.
That’s the (negative) percentage of their after-tax income that Americans saved last year — the lowest savings rate since 1933 when, in the depths of the Great Depression, one in four workers were jobless.
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