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  1. EDITORIAL: California should expand food stamp access
    Fresno Bee logo Fresno Bee 1 hour ago

    California has always played its part in helping with that safety net for those who need it. There are more people in need right now, and we shouldn't be surprised. In economic downturns, enrollments in safety net programs go up; in boom times, they go... Full Article at Fresno Bee

  2. George Heymont: I'm in the Mood for Love
    The Huffington Post logo The Huffington Post 3 hours ago
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    For many people, Rob Reiner's 1987 delight, The Princess Bride, is a reliable tonic to chase away the blues. Why? Because the bottom line is summed up so well in a famous song crafted by Rodgers & Hart during the Great Depression. In the following clip... Full Article at The Huffington Post

  3. Getty Images logo Getty Images 2 months ago
    CHICAGO, IL - NOVEMBER 28: Traders take orders near the close of trading in the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index options pit at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) on November 28, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. All three major stock indices were...

    CHICAGO, IL - NOVEMBER 28: Traders take orders near the close of trading in the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index options pit at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) on November 28, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. All three major stock indices were... View Photo »

  4. We’re in the worst economy since the Great Depression and yet you can feel Dr. King’s spirit’s alive because people are talking about solutions
    SOURCE: Capital New York 3 weeks ago
  5. Wall Street's Bullish Bias
    Seeking Alpha logo Seeking Alpha 4 hours ago

    It will take years for the housing market to return to conditions that existed before the bubble.Labor market improving. This is a celebration of direction over level. At 8.3% unemployed, the labor market is only slightly better than its worst status... Full Article at Seeking Alpha

  6. SPIEGEL Interview with George Soros: 'Merkel Is Leading Europe in the Wrong Direction'
    Spiegel Online logo Spiegel Online 4 hours ago
    Billionaire investor George Soros: "The euro crisis is a direct continuation or consequence of the 2008 crash."

    This crisis isn't over yet and we will have to spend more state money in order to stop the skidding. It is only afterward that we can change the direction. Otherwise we will repeat the mistakes that plunged America into the Great Depression in 1929. ... Full Article at Spiegel Online

  7. Bank failures, mortality and the Great Depression
    British Medical Journal logo British Medical Journal 6 hours ago

    Though only data for 1929–1937 are considered in the paper, quite bold statements are made on changes in these years being consistent with longer-term patterns commonly referred to as epidemiologic transition. Consistent with this transition ‘chronic... Full Article at British Medical Journal

  8. Getty Images logo Getty Images 2 months ago
    CHICAGO, IL - NOVEMBER 28: A trader signals an offer in the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index options pit at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) on November 28, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. All three major stock indices were sharply higher today...

    CHICAGO, IL - NOVEMBER 28: A trader signals an offer in the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index options pit at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) on November 28, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. All three major stock indices were sharply higher today... View Photo »

  9. This is a bit like what happened after the Great Depression. It will be harder to make a lot of money and therefore it gives an impetus for firms to reconsider and pull back.
    SOURCE: FINS 3 weeks ago
  10. Aesthetic Perfection - The Great Depression (Official Video)
    YouTube Logo YouTube Videos 37 months ago
  11. Our View: Streamline food stamp program
    Mercedes Sun-Star 7 hours ago

    In downturns, enrollments go up; in boom times, they go down. So it should surprise no one that since the recession that began in December 2007, we've seen record numbers of food stamp enrollments. In Stanislaus County, the number of people receiving... Full Article at Mercedes Sun-Star

  12. Information Processing: History is impossible
    Maoxian logo Maoxian 8 hours ago

    From the introduction: ... Six decades later, Kurosawa’s message of multiple truths couldn’t be more relevant as we sift through the wreckage of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Even the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission—a... Full Article at Maoxian

  13. Top 10 Highly Developed Countries
    Top 10 Lists - Listverse 9 hours ago

    The United States came a long way from its beginnings in 1776, beating the British in the American Revolution (with a lot of help from the French) and declaring its independence, and now, after removing the Native Americans, fighting a Civil War,... Full Article at Top 10 Lists - Listverse

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  1. CHICAGO, IL - NOVEMBER 28: Traders take orders near the close of trading in the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index options pit at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) on November 28, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. All three major stock indices were sharply higher today following seven...
  2. CHICAGO, IL - NOVEMBER 28: A trader signals an offer in the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index options pit at the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) on November 28, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. All three major stock indices were sharply higher today following seven straight days of...
  3. Former NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw, author of the blockbuster book “The Greatest Generation,” speaks November 3, 2011 at the Natioanl Press Club in Washington, DC. Brokaw discussed his new book, “The Time of Our Lives: Past, Present, Promise,” a broad view of how American life has...
  4. FILE - In this Sept. 19, 2011 file photo, a house with a "for sale" sign in front is seen in Newton, Mass. Home ownership over the past decade posted the biggest drop since the Great Depression as layoffs, foreclosures and the mortgage mess made it harder for people to buy or hold onto...
  5. FILE - In this Aug. 26, 2011 file photo, shoppers unload their items at Costco in Mountain View, Calif. Consumers earned less and spent less for a second straight year in 2010. The government data shows how Americans are struggling after the worst recession since the Great Depression.
  6. Leilani Carter, 4, bottom, helps her great-grandmother Flossie Carter eat a piece of birthday cake as she celebrates her 111th birthday at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Heritage Place skilled nursing facility where she has lived for over 12 years in Pittsburgh , on...
  7. Residents walk down Cherry Avenue in the Pratt City area of Birmingham, Ala. , on Friday, April 29, 2011. Survivors of the deadliest tornado outbreak since the Great Depression struggled to begin rebuilding their lives in the wind-wrecked landscape Friday, enduring blackouts and waiting...
  8. J.L. Marable, left, and Rufus Gaines unload supplies at the former Scott Elementary School in Birmingham, Ala. , on Friday, April 29, 2011. Survivors of the deadliest tornado outbreak since the Great Depression struggled to begin rebuilding their lives in the wind-wrecked landscape...
  9. Calvin Smith of Tuscaloosa, Ala. , pushes his bike past tornado demolished homes Friday, April 29, 2011. Smith said two of his friends perished in the homes at rear. Survivors of the deadliest tornado outbreak since the Great Depression struggled to begin rebuilding their lives in the...

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The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in about 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s or early 1940s. It was the longest, most widespread, and deepest depression of the 20th century, and is used... Full Article At Wikipedia.org

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  1. We’re in the worst economy since the Great Depression and yet you can feel Dr. King’s spirit’s alive because people are talking about solutions
    SOURCE: Capital New York 3 weeks ago
  2. This is a bit like what happened after the Great Depression. It will be harder to make a lot of money and therefore it gives an impetus for firms to reconsider and pull back.
    SOURCE: FINS 3 weeks ago
  3. There’s an unhealthy correlation between completion of the world’s tallest building and an economic downturn and this unhealthy correlation goes back to the late 1800s and can be seen in New York in the 1930s with the Great Depression and the Empire State Building, the 1970s in Chicago and obviously sta...
    – Andrew Lawrence SOURCE: The Epoch Times 3 weeks ago
  4. The Golden Gate Bridge stands today as a testament of innovation and imagination, a bridge built by the people during the Great Depression
    SOURCE: Examiner.com 3 weeks ago
  5. In one of the worst economies since the Great Depression, Cablevision has not laid off any technicians in New York City or elsewhere, and its employees have great jobs with excellent salaries and benefits ... In fact, Cablevision is currently hiring and expanding its New York City workforce. Our relatio...
    SOURCE: Crain's New York 3 weeks ago
  6. Where you grew up, on the edge of town, next to the tracks, you could hear the trains going by at night. East Texas, the 1930s — the Great Depression.
    SOURCE: Creators Syndicate 4 weeks ago
  7. Ronald Reagan raised the debt ceiling 18 times during his presidency and is viewed as a conservative icon ... Yet a progressive President is forced to raise the debt ceiling in the middle of two wars that we didn't create and the worst economy since the Great Depression, and we're fiscally irresponsible...
    – Hakeem Jeffries SOURCE: Fort Greene-Clinton Hill Patch 4 weeks ago
  8. I don’t think that’s the reason ... I hear people say the economy and state of the world, but my parents lived through the Great Depression, which makes this one seem pretty tame, and they lived through World War II, which is probably the most horrific human experience in history. So I think things have...
    – Andrew Weil SOURCE: The Bend Bulletin 4 weeks ago
  9. The fact that Bernanke’s such a student of the Great Depression and Japan’s battles with deflation and low growth arguably makes him the best qualified person to hold that job at the moment ... It’s clear he saw deflation and depression as a big threat and he understood that from his studies. If he’d be...
    SOURCE: BusinessWeek 4 weeks ago
  10. We have weathered the worst economic period in our country's history since the Great Depression and emerged stronger than before because of the capital we raised as part of our conversion. We, as well as most other financial institutions and our nation, still face many difficult challenges, but we belie...
    SOURCE: PR Newswire 2 months ago
  11. Between 2009 and 2011, Democrats controlled both houses of Congress and the White House. In that time, unemployment reached its highest level since the Great Depression
    SOURCE: The Washington Post 2 months ago
  12. Black Friday seems to have a bad connotation ... It reminds people of the Great Depression, which started off with a ‘Black Tuesday.’ If we’re approaching the happy holidays, we should be talking about more appealing seasonal colors.
    SOURCE: Brooklyn Eagle 2 months ago
  13. The challenge is, it's all happening against the backdrop of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression ... We really need people to support these efforts if we're going to make a difference. Unfortunately, we're victims of our own success. As AIDS becomes more and more a chronic but manageab...
    – Robert Frost SOURCE: WIS 2 months ago
  14. Americans are suffering through the worst crisis of long-term unemployment since the Great Depression ... It's time for Congress to get to work and help American workers who are going through serious hardship through no fault of their own.
    SOURCE: PR Newswire 2 months ago
  15. Dothan has embraced its agricultural roots ... In the middle of the Great Depression the area’s leaders embraced the idea of Dothan being the agricultural center of the area. A great example of that is the National Peanut Festival, which honors the agricultural roots of the region. It took a while (for ...
    SOURCE: Dothan Eagle 2 months ago
  16. New Deal Schools: How an Earthquake and the Great Depression Shaped the Future of Long Beach Schools
    SOURCE: Long Beach Press-Telegram 2 months ago
  17. The present situation contains elements reminiscent of policy during the Great Depression, when a mounting crisis was confronted by an orthodoxy that resulted in great poverty that could have been avoided
    SOURCE: Irish Times 2 months ago
  18. There's always little battles you're going to lose along the way. There's going to be ups and downs. America went through the Great Depression. We came back from that, right?
    SOURCE: FOX Sports 2 months ago
  19. A couple of years ago, I saw an ad for an African American owned bank formed in 1933 celebrating it’s 75th anniversary. It hit me, ‘wait a minute, 1933 was at the depths of the Great Depression and you have black people who decided they were going to start a bank which has lasted for 75 years?!’
    SOURCE: NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund 2 months ago
  20. During the Great Depression, at Hope College back in the 1930s, I was the only cello player ... I’m just an ordinary cello player, not a soloist.
    SOURCE: MLive.com 2 months ago
  21. today we are two years into what is shaping up as the weakest recovery since the Great Depression
    SOURCE: Vancouver Sun 2 months ago
  22. The Great Depression was not so bad if you had a job
    SOURCE: Zero Hedge 2 months ago
  23. It would be nothing short of disgraceful for the U.S. Congress to politicize this issue, which is simply an effort to help millions of Americans survive the worst economy since the Great Depression. Congress needs to act now!
    SOURCE: PR Newswire 2 months ago
  24. Despite fears among lay people that growing productivity would create a situation where demand could not keep up with output, experience shows that we can have dramatic economic growth without ‘over-producing.’ Some people believed that the Great Depression of the 1930s was due to such over-production. ...
    SOURCE: Daily Free Press 2 months ago
  25. I think your first order of business should be adjusting these salaries ... That's the only moral thing to do, especially since we're in the midst of the greatest recession since the Great Depression.
    SOURCE: Belleville News-Democrat 2 months ago

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