→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →How "Dick" came to be short for 'Richard': https://youtu.be/BH1NAwwKtcg?list=PLR0XuDegDqP2Acy6g9Ta7hzC0Rr3RDS6q Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut Who is Craig from Craigslist? https://youtu.be/oSXJ1gh9Tx0?list=PLR0XuDegDqP33-NUx7wuKb-3PDj-gRKgR Miss Unsinkable https://youtu.be/8-798XH2RPE?list=PLR0XuDegDqP33-NUx7wuKb-3PDj-gRKgR In this video: The Great Depression, the worst economic downturn in the history of the United States and the Western world, began on October 24, 1929, a day that has gone down in the history books as Black Thursday. The economy went into a tailspin with businesses laying off workers and wages for those still employed plummeting. Between 13 million and 15 million Americans were unemployed (about 11%-13% of the population) and couldn’t find work at the peak of the Great Depression in 1933. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/08/woman-famous-great-depression-photograph/ Sources: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/dorothea-lange/dorothea-lange-biography-with-photo-gallery/3097/ http://www.history.com/topics/great-depression http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Daughter-of-Migrant-Mother-proud-of-story-3221049.php http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/fts/kansascity_201307F03.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2290879/I-lost-hope-Startling-interview-unearthed-woman-iconic-Great-Depression-image-talking-just-years-death-1983.html http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/12/02/dustbowl.photo/ http://www.tampabay.com/features/visualarts/depressions-migrant-mother-remains-a-powerful-image/493338 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/dustbowl-mass-exodus-plains/ http://www.today.com/id/51067427/ns/today-today_books/t/american-story-mona-lisa-dust-bo