The situation back in 1909 was similar to our 2010 unemployment picture. It is difficult to imagine a hard working laborer being forced to a...

No matter how bad the times were in the early years of the Great Depression, local citizens still found the time to ring in the new year of ...

Admittedly, we haven't yet sunk into the depths which we acheived back in 1933. However, the message above was published as a full page ...

Like today, libraries all over the country are hosting patrons who are coming to research employment opportunities in an era when the countr...

Exactly one week after I was born, this editorial cartoon appeared in the Trenton Evening Times. All over America, poverty became a reality ...

Throught good economic times and bad, the Rescue Mission is there for those unfortunates who lack work and need assistance. The great depre...

THE GLOVER FAMILY WAS ON "RELIEF" BACK THERE IN THE EARLY 30'S. MY DAD LOST HIS TRUCKING BUSINESS DUE TO THE LACK OF HIS CUST...

JUST LOOK AT THOSE PRICES! REMEMBER, THOSE WHO WERE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO HAVE A JOB WERE PROBABLY MAKING 15 OR 20 DOLLARS A WEEK.

THE GREAT DEPRESSION WAS A VERY SAD TIME IN AMERICA. MILLIONS OF CITIZENS SUFFERED, AND POVERTY WAS QUITE COMMON. THE GLOVER'S WERE VICT...