Public Finance and Taxation
Notice as you read the various pieces that there is disagreement over how to analyze the long-term impact of the recession-which also influences how you assess the recovery.
Through the various readings (and there are a fair number that are New York Times articles on assessing the recession and the recovery, these are mostly between 1-4 pages in length) pay attention to the unevenness of the recovery- parts of the country affected differently, different demographic groups also affected differently, for example.
In your essay how to do you analyze the recession and the recovery that has followed. In your essay there are two terms you should try to understand and incorporate into your writing: structural unemployment and gini ratio (or gini coefficient).