The Farm Bill, signed into law by President Donald J. Trump on Dec. 20, 2018, died on Oct. 1, but with Congress on its long election break until November 14, it has not yet been buried. When Congress ...

In the early days of the Great Depression, Rep. Willis Hawley, a Republican from Oregon, and Utah Republican Sen. Reed Smoot thought they had landed on a way to protect American farmers and ...

There was a time of great prosperity in the U.S. after the end of World War I. The period is remembered as the Roaring Twenties. Unemployment was low and the economy did well. Many people bought ...

The 1930s were restless years. Hundreds of thousands of people were “on the bum,” or rode freight trains around the country looking for farm work at about $25 a summer month. With the promise of ...

The sting of the Great Depression in Minnesota began before the dust storms and clouds of grasshoppers arrived throughout the Midwest. Spurred by World War I demand that brought great affluence, ...

While modern economic downturns and crises, such as the 2008 financial crisis or recent inflation, have been challenging and created genuine hardship for millions of families, the sheer scale and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the early days of the Great Depression, Rep. Willis Hawley, a Republican from Oregon, and Utah Republican Sen. Reed Smoot thought they had landed on a way to protect American ...