Gordon W. Green Jr. and John F. Coder, former Census Bureau officials, wrote a report based on Census data that explored household incomes during and after the recession. They found that starting in June 2009, at the official end of the recession, up to June 2011, the inflation-adjusted median household income fell 6.7 percent to $49,909.
This is a significant drop from the 3.2 percent decrease experienced between Dec. 2007 and June 2009–the official period of the recession as determined by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Researchers found a possible reason for this is a freeze in pay, which has remained stagnant or even dropped in many cases–a large number of people who lost their jobs during the middle or end of the recession remained out of work for months and took pay cuts in order to be hired again.
A separate study conducted by Henry S. Farber, an economics professor at Princeton, revealed that people who lost jobs in the recession and later found work earned an average of 17.5 percent less than they had in their old jobs.
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