The Great Depression taught an entire generation ... financial stability often feels out of reach. Here are ten Depression-era habits that can help anyone navigate modern challenges with ...

To get some perspective, I called up my great aunt Mary. When she was about five years old, the Depression hit. And it hit hard ... But despite the hardships, Aunt Mary said her parents always managed ...

Matthew Chapman is a video game designer who attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and lives in San Marcos, Texas. Before joining Raw Story, he wrote for Shareblue and AlterNet, specializing ...

Though the U.S. has experienced several recessions, there has only been 1 major depression. Often referred to as “the Great Depression,” the stock market crash of October 29, 1929, caused the ...

In the 1930s, disillusioned farmers and ranchers fought to carve a 49th state out of northern Wyoming, southeastern Montana and western South Dakota Eli Wizevich Visitors will be safely strapped ...

According to the National Archives, “many chose to leave the country rather than risk a deportation hearing” during the Great Depression. Combined with the economic pressures of the time ...

Still, it was the 1930s—the middle of the Great Depression—and people were desperate for work. Hopeful men lined up, waiting for construction jobs that would open when laborers inevitably died ...

This marked the first time since the Great Depression that M2 had ... the knowledge the central bank now has makes a depression unlikely in the modern era. Despite this asterisk, there's concern ...

This is to account in “GDP” terms, the statistic invented in the Depression for just the purpose we are about here. Over eleven years, the latter seven or eight of them devoted to New Deal the ...

Areas off the Great Lakes are used to big snowfall events, earning the title of Ontario’s snowbelt. Yet something new is happening. Climate scientists and meteorologists say climate change ...

Right now seems like a peculiar time for any pre-FDIC-era nostalgia. After all, last year was the biggest year for bank ... Or maybe they take it as a challenge: You’ve heard of the Great Depression?