On the Great Depression families face a Great Depression. So thered be appropriate for us to talk about the story of norveld, which isnt its its a Great Depression story. About how to deal with the suffering that the Great Depression brought about and i want to first talk a little bit about that suffering so we can see that. Economic epic opportunity fell pretty dramatically. This is a measure of us gross domestic product. So does anybody know what that might mean . Gross domestic product have a sense dan. I would be products in the us in general not imports or exports just products in the us and not just physical products, but all economic activity. So its its an attempt to measure all the academic activity thats happening in the economy. And so and of course, it wont catch everything, but it catches a lot of it and its good to compare across time and you can see that in 1929. Were over a hundred billion dollars in gross domestic product, but that started to fall pretty dramatically s
On the Great Depression families face a Great Depression. So thered be appropriate for us to talk about the story of norveld, which isnt its its a Great Depression story. About how to deal with the suffering that the Great Depression brought about and i want to first talk a little bit about that suffering so we can see that. Economic epic opportunity fell pretty dramatically. This is a measure of us gross domestic product. So does anybody know what that might mean . Gross domestic product have a sense dan. I would be products in the us in general not imports or exports just products in the us and not just physical products, but all economic activity. So its its an attempt to measure all the academic activity thats happening in the economy. And so and of course, it wont catch everything, but it catches a lot of it and its good to compare across time and you can see that in 1929. Were over a hundred billion dollars in gross domestic product, but that started to fall pretty dramatically s
Economic epic opportunity fell pretty dramatically. This is a measure of us gross domestic product. So does anybody know what that might mean . Gross domestic product have a sense dan. I would be products in the us in general not imports or exports just products in the us and not just physical products, but all economic activity. So its its an attempt to measure all the academic activity thats happening in the economy. And so and of course, it wont catch everything, but it catches a lot of it and its good to compare across time and you can see that in 1929. Were over a hundred billion dollars in gross domestic product, but that started to fall pretty dramatically so that by 1930 were below a hundred million by 1931 were below 80 million by 1932 were below 60 million and were right about in the 50s, so were probably cut in half gross domestic product. Which means the economy shrank by by half, which is a terribly difficult thing now youre good. So so its what does that mean though . For
The cost of a typical familys premium by up to 2500 a year. As it turns out, the socalled Affordable Care act is not so affordable for American Families after all. Quietly released the support from president Obamas Administration just last week revealed that 11 million workers will see their premiums go up because of obamacare. These are not just any workers that we are talking about. They are Small Business workers, some of the hardest working people in our country. The very engine of our economy. As a nation, we rise and fall with their success. Not only is this another broken promise to 11 Million People that will lose more of their hardearned money. It is another slap in the face to our already hurting working middle class. The administration did not want you to see this report. It only exists because republicans demanded it in early 2011 in part of a spending cut agreement. The report was submitted nearly three years late. Quietly last friday evening with no public announcement. R
All weekend long on booktv. For a complete schedule visit booktv. Org. In 1936, five years before they published let us now praise famous men, james agee and photographer walker evans produced a feature article for Fortune Magazine titled cotton tenants. It was about three poor families in alabama living through the great depression. The 30,000 word article and accompanying photos were never published by fortune, but cotton tenants was discovered decades later in a collection of agees manuscripts housed at the university of tennessee. During this event hosted by the Jimmy Carter Library and museum, editor john summers leads a Panel Discussion about the book and the work of james agee and walker evans. Carter library, president ial library here in atlanta, georgia. Im thrilled to be moderating this illustrious panel tonight. I think we will begin by introducing the book that we are going to be talking about, cotton tenants. James agee, walker evans. We will get started. In 1936, Fortune