It was not a coincidence that the global economy experienced the most severe case of unemployment during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Unemployment is highly dependent on ...

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 ...

Men eating bread and soup at a breadline during The Great Depression in the USA in 1929 ... The cutbacks in production led to unemployment, which in turn reduced demand for goods and created ...

Farmers had already been struggling before the Great Depression. During the 1920s ... employed as poorly paid farm labourers. Some unemployed farmers travelled the countryside looking for work.

The 1929 stock market crash, intensified isolationism, sky-high unemployment ... of their property and possessions to survive ...

During a depression, prices and world trade fall, unemployment rates rise and the ... Often referred to as “the Great Depression,” the stock market crash of October 29, 1929, caused the ...

Without such measures, the entire banking system was vulnerable: Deposits may have swelled during ... to ease the Great Depression, including Social Security. Workers received unemployment ...

With widespread unemployment, scarcity of resources ... One of the hallmarks of cooking during the Great Depression was making do with limited ingredients: With store-bought food becoming scarce ...