Child Of The Great Depression

Author : Russell Freedman
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618446308
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children of the Great Depression written by Russell Freedman and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2005 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses what life was like for children and their families during the harsh times of the Depression, from 1929 to the beginning of World War II.

Author : Irwin Garfinkel
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1610448596
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children of the Great Recession written by Irwin Garfinkel and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2016-08-21 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many working families continue to struggle in the aftermath of the Great Recession, the deepest and longest economic downturn since the Great Depression. In Children of the Great Recession, a group of leading scholars draw from a unique study of nearly 5,000 economically and ethnically diverse families in twenty cities to analyze the effects of the Great Recession on parents and young children. By exploring the discrepancies in outcomes between these families—particularly between those headed by parents with college degrees and those without—this timely book shows how the most disadvantaged families have continued to suffer as a result of the Great Recession. Several contributors examine the recession’s impact on the economic well-being of families, including changes to income, poverty levels, and economic insecurity. Irwin Garfinkel and Natasha Pilkauskas find that in cities with high unemployment rates during the recession, incomes for families with a college-educated mother fell by only about 5 percent, whereas families without college degrees experienced income losses three to four times greater. Garfinkel and Pilkauskas also show that the number of non-college-educated families enrolled in federal safety net programs—including Medicaid, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (or food stamps)—grew rapidly in response to the Great Recession. Other researchers examine how parents’ physical and emotional health, relationship stability, and parenting behavior changed over the course of the recession. Janet Currie and Valentina Duque find that while mothers and fathers across all education groups experienced more health problems as a result of the downturn, health disparities by education widened. Daniel Schneider, Sara McLanahan and Kristin Harknett find decreases in marriage and cohabitation rates among less-educated families, and Ronald Mincy and Elia de la Cruz-Toledo show that as unemployment rates increased, nonresident fathers’ child support payments decreased. William Schneider, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and Jane Waldfogel show that fluctuations in unemployment rates negatively affected parenting quality and child well-being, particularly for families where the mother did not have a four-year college degree. Although the recession affected most Americans, Children of the Great Recession reveals how vulnerable parents and children paid a higher price. The research in this volume suggests that policies that boost college access and reinforce the safety net could help protect disadvantaged families in times of economic crisis.

Author : Glen H Elder
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429981368
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children Of The Great Depression written by Glen H Elder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this highly acclaimed work first published in 1974, Glen H. Elder Jr. presents the first longitudinal study of a Depression cohort. He follows 167 individuals born in 1920?1921 from their elementary school days in Oakland, California, through the 1960s. Using a combined historical, social, and psychological approach, Elder assesses the influence of the economic crisis on the life course of his subjects over two generations. The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this classic study includes a new chapter on the war years entitled, ?Beyond Children of the Great Depression.?

Author : Jonah Winter
Publisher : Schwartz & Wade
ISBN 13 : 0375983856
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Born and Bred in the Great Depression written by Jonah Winter and published by Schwartz & Wade. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: East Texas, the 1930s—the Great Depression. Award-winning author Jonah Winter's father grew up with seven siblings in a tiny house on the edge of town. In this picture book, Winter shares his family history in a lyrical text that is clear, honest, and utterly accessible to young readers, accompanied by Kimberly Bulcken Root's rich, gorgeous illustrations. Here is a celebration of family and of making do with what you have—a wonderful classroom book that's also perfect for children and parents to share.

Author : Robert Cohen
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 080786126X
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dear Mrs. Roosevelt written by Robert Cohen and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-10-16 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impoverished young Americans had no greater champion during the Depression than Eleanor Roosevelt. As First Lady, Mrs. Roosevelt used her newspaper columns and radio broadcasts to crusade for expanded federal aid to poor children and teens. She was the most visible spokesperson for the National Youth Administration, the New Deal's central agency for aiding needy youths, and she was adamant in insisting that federal aid to young people be administered without discrimination so that it reached blacks as well as whites, girls as well as boys. This activism made Mrs. Roosevelt a beloved figure among poor teens and children, who between 1933 and 1941 wrote her thousands of letters describing their problems and requesting her help. Dear Mrs. Roosevelt presents nearly 200 of these extraordinary documents to open a window into the lives of the Depression's youngest victims. In their own words, the letter writers confide what it was like to be needy and young during the worst economic crisis in American history. Revealing both the strengths and the limitations of New Deal liberalism, this book depicts an administration concerned and caring enough to elicit such moving appeals for help yet unable to respond in the very personal ways the letter writers hoped.

Author : John A. Clausen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520201491
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Lives written by John A. Clausen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the culmination of the now-famous Berkeley Longitudinal Studies, Clausen assesses what he has learned about the lives of 300 men and women studied since their adolescence in the early 1930s to determine why some were successful in their careers, marriages, and social lives, while others were less so.

Author : Cheryl Mullenbach
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613730543
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Depression for Kids written by Cheryl Mullenbach and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2016 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People List Have you ever wondered what it was like to live during the Great Depression? Perhaps you think of the stock market crash of 1929, unemployed workers standing in breadlines, and dust storms swirling on the Great Plains. But the 1930s were also a time when neighbors helped neighbors, librarians delivered books on horseback, and an army of young men rebuilt the nation's forests, roads, and parks. TheGreat Depression for Kids provides a balanced and realistic picture of an era rife with suffering but also deep-rooted with hope and generosity. Beginning with a full chapter on the 1920s, the book provides important background knowledge to help set the stage for an in-depth look at the decline of the economy and attempts at recovery over the next decade. Twenty-one hands-on activities invite young history buffs to understand and experience this important era in American history. Kids can recreate Depression glassware; simulate a windstorm; learn how to research, buy, and sell stocks; design a paper block quilt; play "round ball"; and much more.

Author : Kathleen Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children of the Depression written by Kathleen Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2001-09-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Depression, Roy Emerson Stryker, head of the Farm Security Administration Historical Section, hired some of the best photographers in the United States--including Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, Marion Post Walcott, John Delano, John Vachon, and Arthur Rothstein--to record the state of the country during its direst days. While Stryker made many demands on his photographers, he also gave them a great deal of freedom. Asking for sociology, he received great art. It is that combination which makes the FSA collection so special. A goal of the FSA photographers was to inspire the country to care about the people the New Deal programs were trying to help. With regard to children, they were masterful. The photographs show us the young of every ethnicity living in conditions we associate today with Third World countries. Behind virtually every shot taken of a child by these remarkable chroniclers is the dream of a world in which childhood is a time of play, happiness, and safety. The reality, shown in the photographs assembled in Children of the Depression, reveals the betrayal of that dream. But the pictures also are a testament to resilience and hope. Editors Kathleen Thompson and Hilary Mac Austin have chosen images that represent different regions and ethnic backgrounds. Some pictures may challenge preconceptions about the Depression era; others will give concrete meaning to the facts and figures that we know about deprivation and hardship. Thompson and Austin use a few of the very familiar FSA photographs, in addition to many pictures that have seldom or never been published. More than 100 black-and-white images are arranged by category, each chapter depicting a specific element of the daily lives of children. Although the photographs are the defining feature of the book, compelling quotes transcribed by social workers of the era are interspersed throughout. Children of the Depression will appeal to lovers of great photography. It will also serve as graphic representation for the generations that followed of the conditions that formed the values and aspirations of many of their parents and grandparents.

Author : Cliff "Top" Sjogren
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781944786328
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Child of the Great Depression written by Cliff "Top" Sjogren and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-18 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Somewhat Opinionated Observation: Although my generation grew up during difficult times, we were spared the personal struggles faced by today's young folks who must adjust to the sometimes destructive onslaught on our cultural values by the Internet, television, movies, and smart phones. Today, the ever-present media and social networks are constantly in the face of those sometimes too young to understand its impact on their lives! Many if not most of today's school aged children will spend untold hours of their free time tweeting and face-booking to find out who's dating who and why. My generation used that time developing our living skills by organizing and playing adult-free games in churchyards, exploring the neighborhood, reading books, assisting parents with household chores, and communicating eye to eye. Our media was the local newspaper and a few radio programs that consisted of news, clean comedy, adventure stories, and music. We also had the ten-cent Saturday triple-feature movies where our heroes fought the bad guys and always won usually without the display of spilled blood. Families worried about unemployment and health, knew their neighbors, and enjoyed their community. They helped each other. Most of us did not want to disappoint our parents in any way. When told to do something, we usually did it without comment. Seldom did I hear parents raise their voices in frustration over their child's behavior. While I was raised during one of the most difficult periods in our country's history, I remain convinced that preparation for life was much less stressful compared to the challenges faced by children today. It was a simpler time.

Author : Barbara E Mauzy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780985967871
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Child of the Great Drepression written by Barbara E Mauzy and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you a depression glass collector? Have you had trouble getting your children or grandchildren to appreciate depression glass and its significance in American history. Well here is the perfect resource for the young reader. Written and illustrated by well known glass author Barbara Mauzy, this book will help young new collectors to appreciate the significance of depression glass; what was the Great Depression, why did it happen, how does the glassware relate to the times, etc... That and much more is included in this great new book designed specifically for the young collector. Your purchase of this book helps to support The National Depression Glass Association and The National Glass Museum.