Central Maine

Was Maine too poor to be affected by the Great Depression? | Fact brief

With fewer large factories to shut down, the state avoided the catastrophic industrial layoffs seen elsewhere.
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US Unemployment Rate Up to 14.7% … the Highest Since the Great Depression!

*The unemployment situation is definitely bleak. Per the latest figures released today, the US economy lost an incredible 20.5 million jobs in April. That figure represents the steepest decline since ...
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The Great Depression diet: 3 survival recipes that tasted surprisingly good

There's something kind of remarkable about food born from necessity. When you're staring down empty cupboards and an even ...
Winston-Salem Journal

Unemployment hits 14.7 percent, highest rate since the Depression

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. unemployment rate hit 14.7% in April, the highest rate since the Great Depression, as 20.5 million jobs vanished in the worst monthly loss on record. The figures are stark ...
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4 Costly Mistakes Middle-Class People Made During the Great Depression

The Great Depression is remembered as the worst recession in modern U.S. history. By the end of 1932, the Great Depression had impacted roughly 60 million people. Some, including middle-class families ...
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Weekly initial U.S. jobless claims fall 9,000 to 215,000

April 17 (UPI) --The Labor Department said Thursday seasonally adjusted initial jobless claims for the week ending April 12 were 215,000, a decline of 9,000 from the previous week. While the highest ...