In 2009, hotel room rates in San Francisco and the nation suffered their biggest annual decline since the Great Depression, according to an analysis of recently released data. San Francisco’s daily average room prices fell nearly 16 percent from $190.12 in… San Francisco - Great Depression - Travel and Tourism - Hotel - History……click here to continue reading
A new study has found that five times as many high school and college students are dealing with anxiety and other mental health issues as youth of the same age who were studied in the Great Depression era…….click here to continue reading
WEST CALDWELL TWP. – Raymond Frey will present a PowerPoint lecture, “Nothing to Fear: FDR and the Great Depression,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 14 at the West Caldwell Public Library at 30 Clinton Road…….click here to continue reading
Linking the Great Depression to the Tucson budget crisis. That’s how Tucson’s City Manager Mike Letcher began a press conference outlining his proposals for closing his $32 million budget hole…….click here to continue reading
What a difference a year makes. Last November, the economy was said to be on the verge of the next Great Depression, sucking the life out of a housing market that was coming off a record year in 2007……….click here to continue reading
Artists were just as slammed by the Great Depression as any Americans. So in 1935, the federal government created the Federal Art Project to employ destitute artists at rock-bottom wages. About 120 works from that area are now on view at the Detroit Institute of Arts. The show runs through March 21…….click here to continue reading
Obama Leading Us Right To Great Depression 2……click here to continue reading
Krugman: Fed Can’t Save Us from Great Depression II……click here to continue reading
Remembering The Great Depression: Big treat: Biscuits and gravy By Trina Kleist Staff Writer To mark the 80th anniversary of the stock market crash that triggered the Great Depression, The Union is running these excerpts of memoirs from Nevada County residents who lived through that time. This is the last of two parts. Justine Kutchar, Grass Valley: My dad worked in a coal mine in Energy, Ill ………click here to continue reading
Does today’s economic turmoil compare to the Great Depression? A look back…….click here to continue reading