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It's official: U.S. in a recession since December 2007 - Dec. 1, 2008

Think Progress found this 12/1/2008 on money.cnn.com

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The National Bureau of Economic Research said Monday that the U.S. has been in a recession since December 2007, making official what most Americans have already believed about the state of the economy . The NBER is a private group of leading economists charged with ...