As Illinois battled to overcome the Great Depression, another fight simmered ... Horner carved a reputation for fairness and justice during seventeen years in office. An unlikely candidate for ...

In this Oct. 9, 1930 file photo, thousands of unemployed people gather outside City Hall in Cleveland during the Great Depression, after some 2,000 jobs were made available for park improvements ...

A healthy unemployment rate in the US hovers between 3% to 5%. During the peak of the Great Depression, the unemployment rate peaked at 24.9% in 1933 — 12.8 million Americans out of a population ...

Simply put, our economy, with high gas, rent, and food prices, is so bad right now that it's putting a bigger financial strain on Americans than what they experienced during the great depression.

During the Great Depression, the most tragic economic collapse in US history, more than 15 million Americans were left jobless and desperate for an income. By 1932, nearly one in four Americans ...

Modern labor laws were developed during the Great Depression to protect workers ... dug into the facts to find out where Missouri and Illinois stood when it came to work breaks.

A number of factors contributed to the Great Depression, economists tell NPR. During the 1920s, known as the Roaring Twenties, the economy was growing and the stock market was thriving.

In these clips, he lectures students about the effects of tariffs during the Great Depression. Here is what to know about what caused the Great Depression. The Great Depression was a catastrophic ...