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History Kids: The Great Depression
This video provides an overview of the Great Depression in the United States. It explains the economic and social conditions leading up to the Depression, including the Roaring Twenties and the stock market crash of 1929. The video also...
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Great Depression
This live-action video program is about the term Great Depression. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the term Great Depression through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams...
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IMF: COVID-19 crisis will cost economy $9 trillion over two years
The IMF's chief economist described the crisis as the worst economic shock since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
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Is the world's economy heading towards a decade of depression? | The Bottom Line
Economist Nouriel Roubini offers dire predictions in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
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U.S. sees highest unemployment since Great Depression
Twenty million Americans lost their job in April due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Among them, African Americans and Hispanics are hardest hit.
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Unemployment rate hits 13 per cent in Canada, higher in U.S.
New numbers from Statistics Canada put the Canadian unemployment rate at 13 per cent. In the United States, the rate is even higher.
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Canada’s economy headed for strong, slow recovery after COVID-19
The Canadian economy is expected to see a strong — but slow — recovery once businesses are able to reopen after the COVID-19 pandemic, the IMF says.
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COVID-19 will hit economy 3 times harder than 2008 financial crisis
The global economy will be hit three times harder by COVID-19 than it was by the 2008 financial crisis, but is expected to bounce back — eventually, according to the IMF.
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IMF says 'worst recession since Great Depression' is likely
International lender says global economy will shrink 3 percent this year, but it is hedging even that dire forecast.
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What Trump gets wrong about tariffs
U.S. President Donald Trump likes to claim that tariffs introduced in the late 1800s by then-president William McKinley ushered in America’s Golden Age, but history shows something different. The CBC’s Eli Glasner breaks down what Trump...
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Cargo ship transports grain to granary after Dust Bowl
Large cargo ship carrying wheat / ship in the open waters / grain pouring into ship sorted by workers / exterior of granary. Cargo ship transports grain to granary after Dust Bowl on April 01, 1942 (Footage by Getty Images)
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The Great Depression in America
/ montage - New York skyline from East River / crowd milling on street, traders in stock exchange jumping about in agitated state, people destroying produce they cannot sell, burning vegetables, wheat, spilling milk, throwing crates into...
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Migrant workers after the Dust Bowl
View of cotton field with row of white tents in the distance / Mexican, African American and white workers with bags / truck with carts attached / workers climb into carts. Migrant workers after the Dust Bowl on April 01, 1942 (Footage...
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B/W 1930s dust blowing over dusty plain in storm / Dust Bowl / USA
B/W 1930s dust blowing over dusty plain in storm / Dust Bowl / USA
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B/W 1936 dust blowing over dusty plain in storm / Dust Bowl / USA
B/W 1936 dust blowing over dusty plain in storm / Dust Bowl / USA
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Wind and dust scare Texas Dust Bowl farmers
Image of empty railway crossing and wind blowing dirt across vacant street and empty houses / wind rushes over exposed soil / lines of destroyed crops / CU ruined crops / tumbleweed blown past farm house / teen boy walks towards house...
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B/W 1936 wind + dust blowing past barbed wire fence in storm / Dust Bowl / USA
B/W 1936 wind + dust blowing past barbed wire fence in storm / Dust Bowl / USA
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Crowds support National Recovery Administration during the Great Depression
Huge crowd marches in a parade in support of the National Recovery Administration, one of the New Deal programs created by FDR for the recovery of economy during the Great Depression / NRA banner hanging from building / men and women...
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The Great Depression
Sign for Employee's Entrance to closed factory with chains blocking entrance / men in soup kitchen line being served food during the Great Depression, 1933 (HD is in 4x3 pillar box format and can be scaled to 16x9)
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Reenactment, 1929 stock market crash
Stock market traders crowding around market maker in the stock trading pit of the New York Stock Exchange reenacting the 1929 stock market crash
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MONTAGE of the US Dust Bowl
1933 Sand and dust piled high / horse standing in field during dust storm / Okies migrating west in cars / poor family emerging from tent. (HD is in 4x3 pillar box format and can be scaled to 16x9)
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B/W 1936 PAN young girl carrying bucket past house to cart in Dust Bowl / Oklahoma
B/W 1936 PAN young girl carrying bucket past house to cart in Dust Bowl / Oklahoma