He was very paranoid of banks, and he had bad memories of growing up poor during the Great Depression. Should my mother deposit the money or just keep it in cash at home to use for her expenses?

Poverty in America has increased in the past few years. According to Debt.org, roughly 37.9 million or 11.5% of Americans live in poverty. The Census Bureau reported that as recently as 2024, a ...

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R. Pickard and published in 1856. Valerie Still said that growing up poor in Camden, N.J., as one of 10 children, she didn’t know much about her Still heritage, especially not the story of ...

History had plenty of those. This article appears in the April 2025 print edition with the headline “Growing Up Murdoch.” When you buy a book using a link on this page, we receive a commission.

While the Kennedys and Trumps of the world were born to wealthy families with large estates, other presidents had far more ...