Voices of Economic Survival

By Editor published on Monday, April 6, 2009 and is filed under Money. You can follow responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

As bad as the economy has gotten in the past few months, the hardships many are encountering pale in comparison with the challenges endured by those who lived through the Great Depression. Between 1929 and the early 1940s, Americans suffered the longest, most devastating economic period in history. Self-sufficiency was the key to getting through those tough times, survivors say, and the importance of saving was the greatest lesson.

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