what were food price averages during the Depression and compared to the 1920s?
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do yer own homework lazy butt
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In October 1929 the stock market crashed, wiping out 40 percent of the paper values of common stock. By 1933 the value of stock on the NYSE was less than a fifth of what it had been at its peak in 1929. Farm income fell some 50 percent. By 1932 every fourth Americans was unemployed.
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From the horrible days of double digit inflation from the late 70's through early 80's.
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The saying is from the depression era where there was little money for anything including food so people had to tighten their belts in order to keep their pants from falling---and became synonomous with being economical.
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1-The earliest social effects were the loss of  jobs and the  scarisity of hard cash. A shortage of good folowed fast and even if you had the cash you were short of goods and scared to spend. The big guy sit down on the money and it went out of circulation fast. People lost homes, families, so many died, and suffered malnutrion due to simply no food. Parents saw children die of starvation, mothers and wives saw  husbands go the suicide route be cause he was helpless to feed his family.\nSchool for many came to a stand still., many school nationwide were closed,and millions of children went without education.\nMy grandparents pulled their corn and gave the griss mill half of it as payment for turning the rest into corn meal. They were oneof the lucky ones.\nMedicine and medical care suffered.\nFamilies split up and the great movement west started. Before the depression Georgia's population was much more  than that of California.  The promise of work in the produce fieldsand fruit grovesof California sent many people there to go humry  with out even shelter over their heads.\nMen left their homes, looking for work and started the great "hobo" rides to nowhere. This usually meant they left a wife and children at home of on the roads. with nothing. Transients were usually refused help in cities and forced from small towns where people protected what little they had left.\nAll of the  old films of the soup kitchens show the men who were fathers, husbands, sons ect  getting a bare meal to just survive past starvation so you can imagine what the women  left behind with children suffered. Many families were suffering. Most familes on the move left or were thrown off their farms with what ever they could carry. \nThe depression meant the beganning of the end of the small farm dominance in America, and the beganing of large corporations.  Homes and farms which had been in the family for generations even back to the revolution were taken for token taxes of a few dollars. many farms went under the tax mans auction for under 5 bucks.\n\n2-Radical groups (like Hitler did in Germany) gained support because they gave the poor, and displaced something to blame their troubles on. They had seemingly good answers to soemhard  questions. They found the scapegoat the public was looking for and usually they were right in that it was the rich guy. This is what gave such a rise to such ideologys as socialism,and communism.  The public had no jobs like in Germany/europe (and as  always plenty of beer or boose) and they had plenty of mad, upset, and hungry people with plenty of time on their hands to listen to them.&#92;\n\n3-I heard  my father talk of some folks on the road getting help from strangers. My grandfather told him of walking and asking people for work for food.While he mentiond many towns would force you out if you were not a native some (especially farm families) would share their last with you. There were new bonds formed, new friends made, and a better appreciation of life and everything material after the depression started. My father as a young boy remebers when things began to pick up and people began to hope again. \n\n4- When people went to the banks and found them closed all at once they did not under stand what happened. Every bank only keeps a percentage their value in money on hand.  The rest is on loan for proifit. when the news began to filter down those on the inside withdrew theirs leaving nothing. When people woke up with no job,and no money this signaled the end of the 20s. and it nearly happened over night  which is why so many people suffered so fast.\nLitterially no goods for consumers,and no funds to purchase what there was brought in the 30s. Government for the most part became non functional and allowed those who did have money and power to later control the country. People like the Kennedys began their wealth during this time and used the depression to do so. Prohibition saw the small farmers who manuf
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< The Great Depression was a massive global economic recession (or "depression") that ran from 1929 to 1941. It led to massive bank failures, high unemployment, as well as dramatic drops in GDP, industrial production, stock market share prices and virtually every other measure of economic growth. It bottomed out in 1933, but it would be well after World War II before such indicators as industrial production, share prices and global GDP could surpass their 1929 levels.
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Hi I hope this helps...the first link  will give you consumer prices for bread, milk etc... the other two links are good for what was popular, such as movies etc
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I think the issue is more then a depression. The United States is losing confidence throughout the world. Foreign and American investors are turning to Europe as the solidified economy. A depression indicates a periodic significant drop in the economy. I think its going to be much worse. It will be permanent. New jobs consist of unskilled and underpaid positions. When 10,000 Americans are applying for jobs that pay 8 dollars an hour, just so they can work, and basic fuel products, gasoline, natural gas, heating oil etc are skyrocketing, how are people going to afford this at 8 dollars an hour? We are watching the decline of the American dream and hence its empire. This is sadly written by someone who loves America.
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70's - 120's\n\nafter meals may spike a little
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Here you could find prices, but for 1980 and other years:\nhttp://www.census.gov/prod/2002pubs/01statab/prices.pdf#search='itemsprice1981'
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It's pretty much always sucked...\nIf you want statistics, check out the website:\nhttp://www.bls.gov/data/home.htm\nI don't think they kept standard stats before the great depression
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The great depression was different.......the reason people lost their homes was because banks called entire loans due......for example..you had a mortgage for $2,000 and the bank would send you a letter saying you had 30 days to pay your entire mortgage balance...thank you\n\nBanks cant do that today....we have laws that prevent them from calling mortgages due like that.
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Socially: Everyone ignored the ban on alcohol and partied a lot.  Economically: The stock market crashed and the economy plunged into a depression.  Politically: People blamed Hoover for the lack of jobs and money and elected FDR.
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With many of the young men off to war minorties and women picked up much of the slack. Business boomed because the US exported all of its goods to war torn countries. After the war the good economy lasted through the 20's but it all came crashing down with the great depression
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It will probably cost you more in gas then they are worth.  Most wheat cents are worth about 1.5 to 3 cents each when circulated.  Even brilliant uncirculated cents with dates after about 1944 are not worth a lot more.  So, unless you have cents in the teens and twenties they are probably worth more as a memory.  The valuable ones (major bucks) are: 1909-S vdb, 1909-S, 1914-D, 1922 plain (no mintmark), 1931-S.  Vox Populi
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www.oilnergy.com has great historical info and graphs on oil and energy prices. On their main page click on the graphs button next to the "WTI posted ($/BBL)" line. THe menu accros the top includes a graph of oil going back to 1920. http://www.oilnergy.com/1opost.htm#since20
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Because of the Great Depression