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    Coronavirus Live Updates
    Launched during the Great Depression, the unemployment insurance system has seen unprecedented strain during the coronavirus crisis.
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    How A Decades-Old Unemployment Insurance System Is Measuring Up In The Pandemic

    May 21, 2020
    Indivar Dutta-Gupta, a co-executive director at the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality, explains the U.S. unemployment insurance system's origins and role today.
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    The Coronavirus Crisis
    Unemployed people wait outside the state Labor Bureau in New York City in 1933. The current economic crisis has drawn comparisons to the Great Depression, but experts say this downturn should be shorter.
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    'A Lot To Be Hopeful For': Crisis Seen As Historic, Not Another Great Depression

    May 17, 2020
    The speed and scale of the economic crash have drawn comparisons to the Great Depression. But this downturn should be shorter, former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and other economic historians say.
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    The Salt
    In less than 100 years, thousands upon thousands of diamondback terrapins had succumbed to the American appetite, depleting the species.
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    Our Taste For Turtle Soup Nearly Wiped Out Terrapins. Then Prohibition Saved Them

    Jul 18, 2019
    By the turn of the 20th century, America's love affair with diamondback terrapin soup — a subsistence food turned gourmet fare — had left the turtle's population teetering. Booze ban to the rescue.
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    Revival Of 'It Can't Happen Here' Has Some Asking, Can It?

    Nov 03, 2017

    A 1930s play that parodies a bombastic outsider who wins the presidency and goes on to become an American dictator is being revived next week in

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    The Salt
    Ruth Campbell Bigelow, the creator of Constant Comment.
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    The Story Behind The 'Tea And Oranges' In Leonard Cohen's Song 'Suzanne'

    Nov 15, 2016
    Cohen's friend Suzanne Verdal fed him a black tea with pieces of orange rind in it. That tea is Constant Comment, sold by the Bigelow Tea Co. First sold in the 1940s, it remains popular even today.
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    The Salt
    Andy Coe and <a href="http://www.npr.org/books/authors/138089009/jane-ziegelman">Jane Ziegelman</a> are married culinary historians. Coe is the author of <em>Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States.</em> Ziegelman is the author
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    Creamed, Canned And Frozen: How The Great Depression Revamped U.S. Diets

    Aug 15, 2016
    During the Depression, cheap, nutritious and filling food was prioritized — often at the expense of taste. Jane Ziegelman and Andy Coe, authors of A Square Meal, discuss food trends of the time.
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    Sounds Of The New Deal In Nevada

    Jul 21, 2016

    In his book, "Sounds of the New Deal: The Federal Music Project in the West," Peter Gough explores the impact of the project on music performance, education, and employment in Nevada.

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    The Salt
    A family traveling between Dallas and Austin, Texas. "The people have left their home and connections in South Texas, and hope to reach the Arkansas Delta for work in the cotton fields," Lang wrote in her notes. "Penniless people. No food and three gallo
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    How Dorothea Lange Taught Us To See Hunger And Humanity

    May 26, 2015
    Perhaps no one did more to show us the human toll of the Great Depression than Lange, who was born on this day in 1895. Her photos of farm workers and others have become iconic of the era.
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