Jun 17, 2011 ... Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, Priebus said that we "have unemployment  that rivals the Great Depression." Later, he added, "we have lost as--two and a  half million jobs since Barack Obama's been president. And of that two and a half  million jobs, almost 45 percent of those people have been out of ...
Apr 20, 2011 ... Recent reports of incremental employment gains should not overshadow the  continuing depth of the jobs crisis in America—a crisis whose severity for some  groups rivals the magnitude of the Great Depression. For example,  unemployment among African Americans in Michigan and Hispanics in Rhode ...
Sep 1, 2007 ... The Great Depression Could Have Been Avoided if the Fed Had Not So Badly  Botched Its Monetary Policy ... made this startling admission in a speech given in  honor of Friedman's 90th birthday: “I would like to say to Milton and Anna:  Regarding the Great Depression, you're right. We did it. We're very sorry.
Mar 4, 2017 ... And have we learned from those mistakes? ... The Great Crash was followed by  the Great Depression, the biggest setback to the global economy since the dawn  of the modern industrial age in the middle of the 18th century. ... Germany  suffered as the pound fell and rival British exports became cheaper.
The Great Depression in the United Kingdom, also known as the Great Slump,  was a period of national economic downturn in the 1930s, which had its origins in  the global Great Depression. It was Britain's largest and most profound economic  depression of the 20th century. The Great Depression originated in the United ...
We have unemployment that rivals the Great Depression.