NEW YORK - Unemployment in the U.S. is swelling to levels last seen during the Great Depression of the 1930s, with 1 in 6 American workers thrown out of a job by the coronavirus, according to new data ...

The Great Depression (1929-1939) was one of the hardest economic periods in American history. With unemployment reaching 25%, ...

Explore 17 rare photos of wealthy Americans during the Great Depression, revealing how the affluent lived amid economic ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - When economists tell us the current U.S. slump could never turn into another Great Depression, they all point to one thing: one of four Americans was out of work in the 1930s. But ...

Liberal historians have long argued that even during the Great Depression, the allegedly Red Decade, most Americans remained broadly loyal to the capitalist political economy. Supposedly, even the ...

Want to learn about the plight of unemployed workers during the Great Depression Head to Amazon.com and order John Steinbeck's Depression-era epic, "The Grapes of Wrath." Want to learn about the ...

Listen and subscribe to our Curious Minnesota podcast: Apple Podcasts | Spotify When Minneapolis’ landmark Foshay Tower opened over Labor Day weekend in 1929, the celebration was truly over the top.

South Africa’s unemployment crisis has reached levels that exceed those experienced during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Notorious gangster Al Capone attempts to help unemployed men with his soup kitchen "Big Al's Kitchen for the Needy." The kitchen provides three meals a day consisting of soup with meat, bread, coffee, ...