Depression-era families got creative with ingredients as they struggled to make ends meet.

President Trump's new tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China have unsettled both domestic and international markets, concerning investors and manufacturers. This emerging global trade war has raised ...

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Notorious gangster Al Capone attempts to help unemployed men with his soup kitchen "Big Al's Kitchen for the Needy." The kitchen provides three meals a day consisting of soup with meat, bread, coffee, ...

During the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal launched the Works Progress Administration, or WPA.

While modern economic downturns and crises, such as the 2008 financial crisis or recent inflation, have been challenging and created genuine hardship for millions of families, the sheer scale and ...

Economics professor Christopher Clarke joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about The Great Depression. What caused The Great Depression? How bad as The Great Depression? What did ...

From Dust Bowl epics to rousing comeback tales, these films paint the era's grit through unforgettable characters.

More than half a decade into the Great Depression, an Indiana commentator published a sad little profile of his fellow American. “Who is the ‘forgotten man’ in ...

Following more than two years of unbridled optimism on Wall Street, the iconic Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI +0.98%), broad-based S&P 500 (^GSPC +0.86%), and growth stock-dominated Nasdaq ...