The Tariff Act of 1890 raised taxes to 49.5% on 1,500-plus items. Championing the move was the “Napoleon of Protectionism,” ...

Well into the late 19th century, the U.S. retail sector was overwhelmingly local, consisting of small, independent merchants ...

In the early days of the Great Depression, Rep. Willis Hawley, a Republican from Oregon, and Utah Republican Sen. Reed Smoot ...

Many people today are unfamiliar with the term “Great Depres­sion” and the profound signifi­cance it holds in global history. The Great Depression, which began in 1929 and lasted through the 1930s, ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Rachel Reeves has said she is “absolutely certain” her welfare reforms will not push people into poverty, appearing to reject official warnings ...

The War on Poverty/Great Society programmes President ... The US, then, is back to its pre-Great Depression economy. Except that in 2025, it’s an economy in which the consumer habits of the ...

David W. Rasmussen, Florida State University (THE CONVERSATION) In 1959, more than a third of all elderly Americans lived in poverty. Slashing that number to under 10 percent by the late 1990s was ...

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What is the Great Meme Depression of 2025? “When I’m really old and have grandkids, I’m gonna tell my grandkids about the TikTok Great Depression of March 2025,” @goofangel announced in a ...

Sultana Begum, the great-granddaughter-in-law of the last ... of how India’s former aristocrats were left in the hands of poverty after the collapse of the Mughal dynasty and British colonial ...

Scrapping the two-child benefit cap would lift 600,000 children out of poverty in the next five years, analysis has found. Researchers at Action for Children have warned that separate plans to ...