But for those living 79 years ago at the start of the Great Depression, like Marion Emenhiser, childhood memories don't elicit thoughts of expensive toys or entertainment that didn't fit in her ...

In Houston, optimism was high during 1929 and 1930, the earliest years of the Great Depression. The city's busy port and oil refineries helped curb the true conditions of the dire times. Advertisement ...

GENESEE COUNTY, Michigan -- To those who lived through the Great Depression -- people now in their 80s and 90s -- today's economic conditions don't come close to rivaling the distress of the Great ...

Working conditions were often poor, but the standard of living climbed for the middle class, ... The Great Depression began with "Black Tuesday" on Oct. 29, ...

Is this the next Great Depression? Economists disagree — vehemently, at times — about whether our current economic malaise will ultimately rival the dark days of the 1930s.

On the surface, there are disquieting parallels between economic conditions in the early 1930s and those of 2008. There was the popping of an enormous asset bubble – stocks then, housing now.

Scrimping and saving was a necessity during the Great Depression, when unemployment in the US skyrocketed to 25 percent. Although we are seeing better times, we can always take a page from that ...

“Before 2020, the highest measured value was in the 1940 census at the end of the Great Depression, when 48% of young adults lived with their parents,” says the report, published Friday.

The peak may have been higher during the worst of the Great Depression in the 1930s, but there is no data for that period.” MORE FOR YOU Share of young adults living with parents hits record.

How close did we come to the Great Depression 2.0? Doubtless, that question will spawn a cottage industry of books, studies, and conferences. But Christina Romer, the head of President Obama's ...