Global Unemployed To Surge Past 200 Million in 2013

[oyarde]

Ask your grandparents if it was better then. Poor people today would be considered pretty well off compared to 1933. Cars, TVs, phones, bigger houses.

By 1933, US industrial production had fallen by 46% from its pre- depression levels. The dustbowl had wiped out crops. You didn't get unemployment insurance payments. Instead there were soup kitchens and bread lines.

My Grandparents are all gone Zip.My one Grandfather would still have been living the same as he would have been in the 40 's.He was a farmer.The property tax the Mrs and I pay ea yr now on our home , a house I have sold on contract ( previous rental ), 14.2 acres of the old family farm , a stand of timber in an adjoining County are more than he pd for his entire farm shortly after 1900.He bought coffee , sugar.Grew , made or raised everything else.

[oyarde]

I would not call what we are currently experiencing a boom but the bust has ended.

I am not sure of what is to come.Yes , this is not a boom.

[Origanalist]

My Grandparents are all gone Zip.My one Grandfather would still have been living the same as he would have been in the 40 's.He was a farmer.The property tax the Mrs and I pay ea yr now on our home , a house I have sold on contract ( previous rental ), 14.2 acres of the old family farm , a stand of timber in an adjoining County are more than he pd for his entire farm shortly after 1900.He bought coffee , sugar.Grew , made or raised everything else.

Geographically some weathered the depression much better than others for sure. Not everyone became destitute.

[Zippyjuan]

My Grandparents are all gone Zip.My one Grandfather would still have been living the same as he would have been in the 40 's.He was a farmer.The property tax the Mrs and I pay ea yr now on our home , a house I have sold on contract ( previous rental ), 14.2 acres of the old family farm , a stand of timber in an adjoining County are more than he pd for his entire farm shortly after 1900.He bought coffee , sugar.Grew , made or raised everything else.

Sorry to hear. I still have one left- in her 90's and my other ones were in their 90's when they passed. They had a small farm in rural Pennsylvania. They had little for themselves but would try to help others when they could. People were always coming by trying to see if any work was available. You don't see that happening to day- people roaming the countryside looking for whatever they can find.

[Occam's Banana]

We had party lines well into the Seventies as I recall.

Yes we did. When I was a kid, we moved to rural Missouri and lived with my grandma. She had a party-line phone. This was the mid-to-late 1970s.

[Origanalist]

Yes we did. When I was a kid, we moved to rural Missouri and lived with my grandma. She had a party-line phone. This was the mid-to-late 1970s.

I think my folks had one when I was really young, like before I was six (pre 1964). But I don't really remember it.