The Great Depression (1929-1939) was one of the hardest economic periods in American history. With unemployment reaching 25%, families had to stretch every dollar, make do with what they had, and get ...

The American economy had suffered economic downturns and slumps before, but the Great Depression was the worst in the country’s history. It affected more people and lasted much longer.

The federal government under President Herbert Hoover was criticized for a lack of sweeping reforms early in the economic ...

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There were several factors that led to the Great Depression. Although the US economy boomed during the 1920s, the prosperity of this decade was not built on firm foundations. In September and ...

During the Great Depression, African Americans were disproportionately affected by unemployment: they were the first fired and the last hired. After Roosevelt was elected, he began to institute hi ...

Some observers believe the global economy resembles that of the late 1930s, and we risk another Great Depression ... specific business challenges facing family firms. In 2003, he took a job ...

The family owned a home and lived a middle class life. Then came the Great Depression, and the era of Mexican repatriation when over 1 million Mexicans and their descendants were forced out of their ...

The racetrack was one of the few places to gamble in the 1930s, Archive Photos By the time the Great Depression descended ... only 25 remained. The American bans proved a boon to the Mexican ...

One Metro Detroit psychiatrist said the findings of the study, published Monday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, is the most thorough study to date on the worsening depression ...