Throughout 1992, 10 million Americans were unemployed, the poverty rate hit 15.1%, and inflation was still impacting family income. As a response, President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore launched an e
Germans always laugh at my amazement overKindergeld.For them, it’s as natural asLüften,men sitting down to peeand handling a pandemic with enviable expertise. Children aren’t cheap, they like to say, which is true. The child benefit is paid until children turn 18 or until they’ve fini...
"Unemployment will tend to increase as long as the economic downturn persists," said Enzo Weber at the IAB institute. In September, the number of unemployed people in Germany declined month-on-month by 85,000 to a total 2.23 million people, according to Germany's federal employment agency (B...
The great depression was sacking its ransom of losses and unemployed in most countries around the globe. A remarkably candid reflection on the state of the world is contained in the farewell address to the mathematicians gathered for the closing session of the ICM (11 September 1932), ...
Shirer, who was working in Germany at the time, has argued that politicians such as Hitler "thrive only... when the masses were unemployed, hungry and desperate". (4) In the election in November 1932 the Nazi Party won 230 seats, making it the largest party in the Reichstag. The ...
As you can see, despite relatively low growth and high levels of government debt, Japan’s unemployment is considerably lower than Spain’s astonishing rate; one in four Spaniards were unemployed in 2012 (currently it stands at 27.2%). If you’re thinking, “hey, Spain is very different fro...
Some of the Finnish officers were also involved in running the training.Lockstedter Lager in Schleswig-Holstein was used as a training area for the Finnish VolunteersThe Finns had an exceptionally good military education compared to the Germans, who were often sent to the front after only a ...
The attempts at rebuilding the international economy after the war were botched. Although the 1920s were prosperous and “swinging” in the United States, the world economy never rediscovered its pre-war rhythm. One problem was monetary conditions. The Germans paid war reparations to France and ...
Not to be neglected within the analysis of ‘anti-communism’ – as in many other circumstances – isparanoia: Not only Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, but all other dictators, and many US-Americans, Germans as well as Koreans suffered from this disease. Therefore the suspicions of conspiracy and tre...
The German unemployment rate soared after the onset of the world economic cri-sis in the autumn of 1929, and by the end of 1932, fi ve million Germans were out of work. The political arena became increasingly polarized, as voters turned to ei-ther the Communist Party or the reactionary ...