The Great Depression

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lose there jobs.
Bank failures clean out some depositors savings if funds are not ensured. When
there was the depression, most people can not meet the house or apartment
payments so they lose there homes and become homeless.

During a depression some people must live on charity just to support themselves
and there families. Sometimes the people who get the charity money, clothes, and
food get kind of embarrassed that they need the money and they feel ashamed that
they can't afford to support themselves which is basically not their fault. The
Great Depression caused lots of marriages and birth rates to decline. If you
were a younger person and you didn't have a job you would delay your wedding
until you have enough money to pay for it just because of the depression. Most
of the time when your unemployed for a long time you lose faith in yourself and
in the future. After a depression many people value security more than anything
else.

Some people profit from the depression, like ...

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recognition of unions, or social security and unemployment
allowances. What bothered him so much and not just him but other critics was
extensions of the federal bureaucy. In March of 1933 president Roosevelt
declared "There is nothing to fear but fear itself."

The great depression was the worst economic slump ever in the U.S History, and
one which spread to virtually all of the industrialized world. ( show second
paragraph of overhead) However, the main causes for the depression was the
combination of the greatly unequal distributions of wealth throughout the 1920's,
and the extensive stock market speculation that took place during the latter
part that same decade. The ...

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