By Knox van Nagell | May 5th, 2009 | See all in Fayette Alliance Blog
Posted March 2009, Atlantic
By Richard Florida
My father was a child of the Great Depression. Born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1921 to Italian immigrant parents, he experienced the economic crisis head-on. He took a job working in an eyeglass factory in the city’s Ironbound section in 1934, at age 13, combining his wages with those of his father, mother, and six siblings to make a single-family income…Read more at TheAtlantic.com
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