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We asked people across our Patch communities if the recession is over for them, how they were affected and how they are coping.The National Bureau of Economic Research, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization recently declared the recent economic recession over in June 2009. Researchers of the much-publicized study also determined the recession lasted 18 months, making it the longest economic downtown since the Great Depression. But sometimes what happens in a think tank stays in a think tank. In other words, the lofty economic data doesn't always translate to the realities of Main Street. On Wednesday, Patch chatted with local business owner and asked a simple question: Is the great recession over? "I'm …
