Congress' response to the 2008 financial crisis sparked a decade of inequality and resentment. The US is now repeating that mistake.

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US lawmakers are about to blow the response to the economic crisis, and they're setting the stage for an uneven recovery similar to what followed the 2008 financial crisis.

Experts say aid to individuals and small businesses has been slow to arrive, which is deepening the economic pain.

"We're going to have a really imbalanced recovery where large businesses recover pretty quickly, and regular people don't," said Amanda Fischer, policy director at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.

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America entered the new decade undergoing its longest economic expansion in history. The onset of 2020 saw employers jostling to hire workers, prompting retirees, disabled people, and others long shut out of the labor force to leap back in. Wages rose for workers at the bottom. Jobs were abundant as the US climbed out of the once-in-a-generation crisis from the Great Recession.

The coronavirus pandemic abruptly halted that momentum, and caused another generational emergency only a decade removed from the last one. Now, the stunning speed and ferocity of the nation's economic collapse over the last three months rivals the Great Depression nearly a century ago.See the rest of the story at Business InsiderNOW WATCH: How waste is dealt with on the world's largest cruise shipSee Also:Fed Chair Jerome Powell says the coronavirus recession has been a 'great increaser of income inequality' with low-paid workers and women bearing the brunt of the fallout'You have an obligation to others': Mitch McConnell urges Americans to wear face masks in publicThe Trump administration won't release an official economic projection for the first time in decades as the US grapples with a historic downturn

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