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The 1980 United States presidential election was the 49th quadrennial presidential election, held on November 4, 1980. The Republican nominee, former California governor Ronald Reagan, defeated incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter in a landslide victory . Carter's unpopularity and poor relations with Democratic leaders encouraged an ...
Mar 11, 2016 · He had never been hotter, or more famous, than he was at 41 years old, at the start of 1988. But his response to his surging celebrity was a series of manic, ill-advised ventures. He cheated on ...
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- The Effect of The Farm Crisis on Rural America
- Activism and Help Rural America
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- Impact of The Farm Crisis on Modern Day Agriculture
Small Town Iowa Suffers During the Crisis
The Farm Crisis decimated small towns where many businesses closed. It spread into the cities where manufacturers of farm implements and other agricultural supplies laid off thousands. The Quad Cities in eastern Iowa and western Illinois lost an estimated 20,000 manufacturing jobs during the 1980s farm crisis. John Deere laid off workers by the thousands. Waterloo, Iowa lost 14 percent of its population in the early 1980s and scores of homes were left abandoned. The economic impact of the Far...
The Family Unit Suffers During the Crisis
For some, the stresses of the Farm Crisis became too much to bear. The increase in rural murders and suicides pointed to the hardships facing many. The feeling of camaraderie long prevalent in rural communities was often damaged beyond repair. Moreover, some of those who were struggling reported feeling shunned by their friends and neighbors. The family structure suffered. Farm men put up walls of silence, isolation and denial. Farm women often had to take on more responsibility regarding the...
Individual farmers were hurting, but many wanted to believe it was as bad as it was. Agriculture was in serious trouble. According to some, one of the most perplexing frustrations was the seeming indifference with which officials in Washington D.C. viewed what was happening on the farm. The national “tractorcades” to Washington, D.C. in 1979 and 19...
Interest rates soared from single to double digits, hitting a record 21.5 percent in 1981, and In January 1984, the Federal Reserve Board issued a report estimating that one-third of all American farmers held nearly two-thirds of the nation's total farm debt. By the time Congress got involved in the mid to late 1980s many felt it was too little too...
The Farm Crisis of the 1980s accelerated a long established trend of farmers leaving the land and farms being consolidated. In 1935 the number of farms in the U.S. reached an all-time high of 6.8 million. By 1990 there were only 2.1 million farms. Years have passed since the 1980s Farm Crisis. Most farmers who struggled and survived those tumultuou...
Feb 1, 2013 · Photo: Getty Images. When Vulture asked 30 Rock ’s John Lutz and Scott Adsit to have an unmoderated conversation to mark the end of 30 Rock, they gamely agreed. Here’s the full transcript of ...
Aug 21, 2018 · It’s been nearly 40 years since the 1980s and what veterans remember as the darkest days for American farm equipment manufacturers. Just after the Russian grain embargo in 1980, the prime lending rate soared from an average of 6.8% in 1976 to an all-time high of 21.5% in 1981 and farm debt for land and equipment purchases soared.
May 25, 2021 · At first glance, the numbers seem to bear this out: The population of people living in asylums dropped from a high of more than half a million in 1955 to barely more than 100,000 in the mid-1980s.
Aug 10, 2017 · Bettmann Archive/Getty Images. The Iran-Contra Affair was a secret U.S. arms deal that traded missiles and other arms to free some Americans held hostage by terrorists in Lebanon, but also used ...
