The United States economy continues to recover from the worst economic crisis since the Great
Depression, and while substantial progress has been made, more work remains to boost economic
growth and speed job creation. Despite ten consecutive quarters of GDP growth and 7.8 million private
sector jobs added since early 2010, the unemployment rate is unacceptably high at 7.3 percent, and far
too many families are still struggling to regain the foothold they had prior to the crisis.