By using this website you allow us to place cookies on your computer. Please read our Privacy Policy for more details.
Publication Date: November 2000
Publisher: Economic Policy Institute
Author(s): Eileen Appelbaum
Research Area: Economics; Labor
Type: Brief
Abstract:
The economic expansion in the United States turned 115 months old in October 2000, exceeding even the 106-month expansion of the 1960s associated with the war in Vietnam. The current expansion is, in fact, the longest in the economic history of the U.S.