If you think this recession is bad, imagine what life was like during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Presented below are my favorite five photos from that era. Hopefully, our current economic situation won’t get this bad. But if it does, at least it will be in color. 
Dorothea Lange: Migrant Mother, 1936 (source)
March of the Unemployed in Camden, NJ (source)
Cattle Skull, Badlands, 1936 (source)
No Way Like the American Way (source)
Free Coffee & Donuts for the Unemployed (source)
All pictures were found on Flickr under the 2.0 Creative Commons License, and each links back to the source. Copyright belongs to the original photographer.
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WORLD’S HIGHEST STANDARD OF LIVING is classic. Though, it was probably true–weren’t other countries even worse off than the US was at that time?
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