March 15, 2021 — Thirteen-million people unemployed; 5,000 failed banks; industrial production down 45%; home-building down 80%. When? Between 1929 and 1932. It was the beginning of the Great Depression, which lasted roughly 10 years.
North Dakota was not spared. On this date in 1938, the director of the state Welfare Board reported more than one in three people were on public assistan…