All Sides with Amy Juravich The Great Recession ÐÇ¿ÕÎÞÏÞ´«Ã½ 89.7 NPR News | By admin Published September 22, 2010 at 10:00 AM EDT Email Listen • 0:00 Former Secretary of Labor and author of Robert Reich says the Great Recession was the culmination of years of widening inequality in America and that a real recovery will require restructuring the economy to strengthen and expand the middle class.