Great Depression Photo Essay by Blake Peffer
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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What I find so interesting is, Herbert Hoover in August 1928 said no country in the world was closer to abolishing poverty than the United States. And then of course, we had the Great Depression.
Robert Dallek
My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn, New York neighborhood; adults standing in his so called 'bread lines,' children begging in the streets.
Jerry Stiller
Although I wasn't aware of it at the time, of the experience of growing up in the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career.
Lawrence R. Klein
The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
Barry Eichengreen
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
Milton Friedman
Work Cited
"Great Depression Quotes." BrainyQuote. Xplore, n.d. Web. 31 Mar. 2015.
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