No Doubt!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937
From WWII looming, to FDR’s ‘New Deal’ I’d say ‘77 was much better!
My father was 21 in 1937 - he did find work and actually saved enough to go to college starting in ‘39 only to be drafted a couple of years later and shipped off to Europe. He never went back to school. And he still counts himself one of the luckiest guys of that age and era.