How a Depression Works

by Jason Porterfield

As the United States teeters on the brink of a severe economic downturn, many citizens have begun looking back at the Great Depression and wondering if it's about to happen again. An economic downturn is not necessarily a depression. When students hear the word depression, they immediately conjure images of breadlines, migrant workers, dust bowls, and downtrodden individuals. The mechanisms of a depression, its causes and effects, and how it develops...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1435853229
• ISBN13: 9781435853225
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Rosen Young Adult
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.5" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12