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Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes was born Feburary 1, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. He published his first poem, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" in 1921. -
Unemployment rates in 1920
The unemployment rate in the year of 1920 was 5.2 %. -
Unemployment rate in 1921
The unemplyment rate of 8.7%. -
Unemployment rate is 1929
The unemployment rates 1929 is 3.2%. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression, an immense tragedy that placed million of Americans out of work, was the beggining of government involvement in the economy and in society as a whole. -
"Relief, Recovery, Reform"
When Roosevelt and Hopkins had direction they pursed "relief, recovery, reform" and cubed corruption. -
The New Deal
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected overwhelmingly on a campaign promising a New Deal for the American people. -
The depression of Mexican Americans in the Great Depression
In the 1930s, durring the Great Depression, over 500,000 Mexican Americans were deported or pressured to leave. -
Medicaid and Medicare
Medicare and madicaid are the primary system for providing government-funded health care to the elderly and the poor in the United States. Congress enacted both programs as an expansion of the federal government's Social Security insurance program, which had its roots in the economic depression of the 1930s. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Coporation
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), an independent U.S federal excutive agency designed to promote public confidence in banks to and to provide insurance coverage for bank deposits up to 0,000. -
Unemployment Rate of 1932
The unemployment rate of 1932 was 25%. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
He became the 32nd U.S. President in 1933, and was te only president to be elected four times. -
Tennessee Valley Authority
The U.S. Constitution passed significance, The Tennessee Valley Authoiity Act in 1933 to establish the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), an autonomous federal corporate agency responsible for the integrated development of the Tennessee River basin. -
Dorothea Lange
During the Great Depression, Dorothea Lange photographed the unemployed men who wandered the streets. Lange's first exhibtion, held in 1934, established her reputation as a skilled docnumentary photographer. -
Entitlement Programs and Solvency
It was created by congress to regulate securities markets and to help protect their investers. -
Securities & Exchange Commision
The Securities and Exchange Act of 1924 was created to provide governance of securities transactions on the secondary market and regualate the exchanges and broker-dealers in order to protect the investing public -
The Dust Bowl
The Dust Howl, the name given to the drought and resluting dust storms on the plains, lasted from 1930 to 1940, although the dates vary by location. -
Social Securty & Social Security Administration
Many of the federal and state programs that provide income security to U.S. families have their roots in the Social Security Act (the Act of 1935. This Act provided for unemployment insurance, old-age insurance, and meastated welfare programs. -
Judicial Interpretation during the New Deal
The judicial branch in the U.S. Government interprets the constition, and during the New Deal. -
The unemployment rate of 1938
In 1938 the unemployment rate was 19.1%. -
Unemployment rate of 1942
The unemployment rate of 4.7%. -
Unemployment rate of 1950
The unemployment rate of 1950 was 5.3%. -
Unemployment rate of 1975
The unemployment rate of 1975 was 8.1%. -
Unemployment rate 1990
The unemployment rate of 1990 was 5.6%. -
Unemployment rate of 2009
The unemployment rate of 9.5%. -
Unemployment rate of 2012
The unemployment rate of 2012 is 7.9%.
