Background On March 31, 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt received Senate Bill S. 598 on his desk to be signed. The bill ...

Young workers - jobless in the midst of a devastating economic quagmire - were paid by the government to build roads, trails and shelters in a park near Tucson. So it was about 75 years ago with the ...

Edward L. Lindsey credits the Civilian Conservation Corps with shaping his life, and saving a nation. At 93, this East Side resident calls the Great Depression years among the greatest of his life.

The Great Depression of the 1930’s marked an era in which record unemployment rate of 25 percent and a higher poverty rate cast economic ruin upon many Americans, including residents of eastern ...

The Great Depression gouged a swath of misery through the United States in the 1930s.