I lost my job and apartment in 2007, so I moved into a toolshed. It was very bare bones, but I learned all the skills I ...
The 2008 financial crisis upended lives overnight—jobs disappeared, savings shrank, and uncertainty became the norm. But some people didn't just endure it—they adjusted. They cut back, changed ...
ATLANTA — There aren't just fewer jobs in a recession. There are fewer babies, too. U.S. births fell in 2008, the first full year of the recession, marking the first annual decline in births since the ...
Jenny Jing Zhu came to the US as a 26-year-old who spoke very little English. Zhu started Lush Decor, a home design company, amid the economic troubles of 2008. The company managed to survive the ...
A new report from the Consumer Federation of America (CFA) found that Americans owe a record $1.66 trillion in auto debt [1].
When a Gen Z Redditor asked Millennials how they survived the recession in their 20s, the responses painted a stark picture of economic desperation that feels eerily relevant as today’s young workers ...
Some of us remember the recession of 1958. Imports into the United States were high and there was a deficit in the balance-of-payments. Consumer prices were on the rise and unemployment was the ...
Growing up, Griffin's family “lost everything.” Reflecting on his hardships after winning the Charles Schwab Challenge, he got teary-eyed. Ben Griffin won his second PGA Tour title at the Charles ...