Posts Tagged ‘Great Depression’
Pottersville towns remain 70 years later
U. IOWA (US) — Great Depression-era bank suspensions have had a lasting harmful effect on the hardest-hit communities, affecting suicide rates and disheartening residents decades later. Continue…
Thursday, December 2, 2010 12:06 - 1 Comment
Society & Culture - Nov 18, 2010 10:52 - 16 Comments
Low-wage earners are more conservative
CORNELL (US) — As income inequity rises, support among the poor for government policies offering increased welfare help declines. (more…)
Society & Culture - Nov 25, 2009 13:27 - 0 Comments
Thanksgiving’s grain of truth
U. COLORADO (US)—The oft-told story of the Pilgrims and the Indians celebrating and befriending each other is more myth than truth, says scholar Chris Lewis. The two groups tolerated each other out of necessity. (more…)
