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Causes and End to the Great Depression

History Havoc

Governments responded by raising taxes, including an income tax doubling in 1932 as tax revenues continued to plumet. 1] In 1930, the US government did not do the economy a favor when it passed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act. A Look at the 1920s,” The Journal of Economic History 76, no. 2 (June 2016): 478-479. [4]

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Is There Something Fishy about the Polygraph?

Anthropology News

August 9, 2016, was a good day for Phil Heasley, the CEO of a financial services company in Florida. August 22, 2016, was a bad day for Phil Heasley. He came to the same conclusion about the same expert witness’s opinion that questions such as “Did you, yourself, violate any fishing rules on Tuesday, August 9, 2016?”

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Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Studies Weekly

We hope students of Asian or Pacific Islander heritage share their experiences and their cultural traditions with their peers, and teachers include the contributions of Asian and Pacific Americans to our collective history in lessons this month. Mostly forgotten by history, thousands of Chinese immigrants, who came to the U.S.