Slow, steady, and one for the record books:
- The US economic expansion and recovery from the Great Recession officially made history on Monday July 1: The 10-year, 121-month expansion that started in June 2009 is now the longest ever.
- The previous record was set during the 120-month expansion from March 1991 to March 2001, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research.
- It ended as the dotcom bubble burst.
- While the current expansion is a record breaker, it's also been one of the slowest.
- Gross Domestic Product has grown 25% cumulatively since the start of the expansion, which is lower than other booms on record.
- The unemployment rate sits at 3.6%, its lowest point since 1969. It is down from a peak of 10% in October 2009, but job growth took much longer during this recovery than during other recoveries postwar.
Jobs:
- record employment
- lowest unemployment
- majority of new highers, first time ever: minorities -- Washington Post
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