This is the #US #LaborForceParticipationRate. According to this, the 2008 recession ended in early 2009, yet the labor force participitation rate didn't bottom out until 2015. There are a number of other measures such as Fed-owned MBSes that show things didn't start to recover until mid 2015 as well.

Think of this any time someone tells you the economy isn't in recession or that the recession will be short. #GDP growth means nothing.

#economics #USEcon #macroeconomics