President Trump on Wednesday said that the 1930s Great Depression wouldn’t have happened if tariffs had continued, while announcing his massive tariff plan to hit trading partners. The president ...

As experts sound the alarm that risk of a U.S. recession is rising, a former Federal Reserve official is comparing the fallout from President Donald Trump’s tariffs to the aftermath of a protectionist ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the early days of the Great Depression, Rep. Willis Hawley, a Republican from Oregon, and Utah Republican Sen. Reed Smoot thought they had landed on a way to protect American ...

Thoughts of the Great Depression most often conjure up images of gloom and despair, soup kitchens, or transients looking for any kind of work. Perhaps it was too early yet to feel the worst of its ...

• The claim uses 1930 income figures that captured only the richest 10% or so of Americans, which skews the comparison with typical incomes from the entire population today. • One federal statistic ...

HOLDREGE — People and places from the Great Depression-Dust Bowl years remain timeless in 80,000 black-and-white photographs taken by some of America’s best photographers of the 1930s. The federal ...