Raj Peter Bhakta launched WhistlePig whiskey in the middle of a recession, and there were some cold, lonely nights where he felt alone in his mission. (entrepreneur.com)
It was the middle of a recession, and the recent engineering graduate, a Cleveland boy, was happy just to have the job with the motion controls company in his hometown. (fortune.com)
But the unemployment rate for African - Americans was 8.8 percent in April, as high as the white unemployment rate was in the middle of the recession. (fivethirtyeight.com)