Certain Depression glass patterns remain highly collectible and valuable learn which designs to spot for hidden gems during ...

New systemic literature review concludes that policies such as parental leave can reduce individuals' risk of depression, while policies that cut social welfare or lead to insecurity increase ...

Policies that impact social determinants of health may influence an individual’s risk of depression, according to a new study published May 21, 2025 in the open-access journal PLOS One by ...

History may not perfectly repeat itself, but it often rhymes. Two protectionist episodes — the infamous Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 and the Trump-era tariffs of today — offer a striking example.

What the public needs now is sober warnings and level-headed analysis. Trump’s tariffs portend economic stagnation, not depression. That is reason enough to oppose them.

The Great Depression was the worst economic crisis in US history when unemployment reached 25%. When the pandemic hit in 2020, Americans hadn't felt that level of economic tragedy in a century ...

A colorized illustration depicts the Tompkins Square Park riot in New York City on Jan. 13, 1874, when the city's police department clashed with thousands of unemployed workers during the economic ...

President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930, even as many economists warned that the levies would prompt retaliatory tariffs from other countries, which is precisely what ...

The economy wouldn't begin its recovery until the outbreak of World War II increased demand for factory production in 1939. "Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive ...

Trump says high tariffs may have prevented the Great Depression. History says different Most historians look back on the Smoot-Hawley Tariffs Act of 1930 as a mistake that made a bad economic ...