![A Whig party poster blamed the economic recession of 1837, and the unemployment troubles and family suffering that ensued, on president Martin Van Buren.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/5-3-img1452.jpg?itok=B1KPfweY)
A Whig party poster blamed the economic recession of 1837, and the unemployment troubles and family suffering that ensued, on president Martin Van Buren.
Source: Public domain
![Unemployed men queued outside a depression soup kitchen opened in Chicago by Al Capone in February 1931.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/5-3-img1461.jpg?itok=lLdxqHSb)
Unemployed men queued outside a depression soup kitchen opened in Chicago by Al Capone in February 1931.
![This iconic photo by Dorothea Lange, hired by the Farm Service Administration to document the effects of the Great Depression on Americans, shows a Dust Bowl migrant farmer and three of her seven children.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/5-3-img1465.jpg?itok=bkx_iON0)
This iconic photo by Dorothea Lange, hired by the Farm Service Administration to document the effects of the Great Depression on Americans, shows a Dust Bowl migrant farmer and three of her seven children.
Source: U.S. Library of Congress
Occupy Wall Street protesters demonstrate against widespread unemployment and corporate greed in September 2011.
Source: Photo by David Shankbone
![Thousands were employed by the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project during the Great Depression.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/4-3-img1485.jpg?itok=QVITI3Kn)
Thousands were employed by the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project during the Great Depression.
![Workers on a Works Progress Administration road-building project.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/4-3-img1486.gif.jpg?itok=MXUK2jGP)
Workers on a Works Progress Administration road-building project.
![At Our Daily Bread Employment Center in Baltimore, people line up for the hot meal program, held seven days a week.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/4-3-img1496.jpg?itok=9Ib9x5Gu)
At Our Daily Bread Employment Center in Baltimore, people line up for the hot meal program, held seven days a week.
Source: Photo by Jim Stipe
![Chris Stewart, a 20-year-old who moved from South Dakota to San Francisco to find a job, advertises himself on the back of his T-shirt.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/4-3-img1499.jpg?itok=H51cmW41)
Chris Stewart, a 20-year-old who moved from South Dakota to San Francisco to find a job, advertises himself on the back of his T-shirt.
Source: Photo by Steve Rhodes
![One thousand unemployed marched to the White House in 1977 to protest cuts in federal unemployment benefits.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/4-3-img1500.jpg?itok=HptrLZOS)
One thousand unemployed marched to the White House in 1977 to protest cuts in federal unemployment benefits.
Source: Reading/Simpson
![Representatives to Warren Harding's 1921 Conference on Unemployment, the brainchild of Herbert Hoover.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/4-3-img1501.jpg?itok=ivXvP2oQ)
Representatives to Warren Harding's 1921 Conference on Unemployment, the brainchild of Herbert Hoover.
Source: U.S. Library of Congress
![This political cartoon commented on the depressed state of the economy under Andrew Jackson in 1837. A panorama of offices, rooming houses, and shops reflects the hard times.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/4-3-img1503.jpg?itok=amGWt58C)
This political cartoon commented on the depressed state of the economy under Andrew Jackson in 1837. A panorama of offices, rooming houses, and shops reflects the hard times.
Source: U.S. Library of Congress
![This promotional poster for an 1895 Broadway melodrama promised to recreate a dramatic "run on the bank" onstage. It could have been any number of nineteenth-century financial crises. The U.S. experienced panics in the years 1819, 1837, 1857, 1873, and 1893.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/4-3-img1504.jpg?itok=i_rYX9tH)
This promotional poster for an 1895 Broadway melodrama promised to recreate a dramatic "run on the bank" onstage
This promotional poster for an 1895 Broadway melodrama promised to recreate a dramatic "run on the bank" onstage. It could have been any number of nineteenth-century financial crises. The U.S. experienced panics in the years 1819, 1837, 1857, 1873, and 1893.
Source: U.S. Library of Congress
![The WPA Federal Theater Project funded this 1935 production of "Horse Eats Hat" with Joseph Cotton.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/4-3-img1507.gif.jpg?itok=0X1Lro3g)
The WPA Federal Theater Project funded this 1935 production of "Horse Eats Hat" with Joseph Cotton.
![This poster promotes the Social Security Act (1935), a key and lasting component of FDR's New Deal.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/4-3-img1508.gif.jpg?itok=zcZpYfyP)
This poster promotes the Social Security Act (1935), a key and lasting component of FDR's New Deal.
![Men fight during a labor strike at the Ford Motor Company in May 1937.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/5-3-img1509.gif.jpg?itok=T06zz7B9)
Men fight during a labor strike at the Ford Motor Company in May 1937.
![Jobless men in Philadelphia talk with a member of the Urban Coalition, a church-based organization of black community leaders, in 1973.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/4-3-img1510.jpg?itok=R5H29UCF)
Jobless men in Philadelphia talk with a member of the Urban Coalition, a church-based organization of black community leaders, in 1973.
Source: The U.S. National Archives
![President Barack Obama signs the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 at the White House.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/4-3-img1512.jpg?itok=S56hzV2q)
President Barack Obama signs the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 at the White House.
Source: White House photo
![Senior citizens protest inflation, unemployment, and high taxes in Chicago in 1973.](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/4-3-img1513.gif.jpg?itok=JMiHYLOf)
Senior citizens protest inflation, unemployment, and high taxes in Chicago in 1973.
Source: Public domain