Depression/Recession

Its no doubt that the depression in the 1930's caused more of a problem in America with unemployment levels than the recession of 2008, but both did cause rises in unemployment and poverty throughout America. As seen in the pictures below, however one has a lot more of an impact than the other.

This is an image of a soup kitchen for the unemployed during the 1930's depression in America. It shows how many people were out of work, and not just for a while but for such a long amount of time that they couldn't even afford to eat and get basic food supplies. Even though the line isn't shown fully in the picture we still get the main idea that the line is long, not only is it long but the people are not even in a single file line. Unemployment was massive. Huge amounts of people had no food to eat and had to rely on soup kitchens not for the homeless, but for the unemployed. Puts unemployment and homelessness on the same level. Really bad.

This image is saying quite the opposite about the recession in America from 2008, compared to the depression in the 1930's. This shows people blaming what I can assume is the government for their unemployment. It shows that a large, not as big as the depression, number of people are unemployed that would like to work. It doesn't quite show poverty on the same scale as the 1930 depression. People here are asking for jobs and work, not lining up for something to eat. However it does similarly show a big loss of work, people that want to work are unable to work because there are no jobs to take.