economic conditions

Bill Clinton expresses his views on the challenges facing the United States and why government matters in the areas of economic growth, job creation, financial responsibility, and resolving the mortgage crisis.

Collects twenty essays that provide varying perspectives on issues associated with the United States economy, debating the involvement of the government; the benefits of cheap goods, services, and labor; and what can help it.

Examines the concept of industrialism, the growth of manufacturing and technology, looks at the role of industrialism in the history of the United States, and discusses related people, court cases, and events.

Provides a quick grounding concerning the issue, does outsourcing harm America, as well as many viewpoints on this subject. Challenges critical thinking while students learn about this controversial issue.

Collects more than three hundred economy-themed cartoons which were originally published in "The New Yorker" from 1925 to 2009.

Examines the events leading up to the 1929 Stock Market crash that resulted in the Great Depression; and explores the methods enacted by both President Hoover and later President Roosevelt to bring the country back.

Discusses the history of Rochester, New York, with photographs and illustrations, chronicling the events that led to its creation along the Genesee river, early village life, the boom after the opening of the Erie Canal, the city's role as part of the Underground Railroad, and more.

Presents a collection of essays that examine the issues related to poverty.

Examines the problem of starvation in Africa; discussing the country's geography and history of famine, the elements that cause it, and strategies to fight it; and cites examples of twentieth and early twenty-first-century food shortages.

History of the 1920's from the collapse of Wilson and the New Freedom to the collapse of Wall Street and the New Era.