Wikipedia, now there's a great source for factual data (that's sarcasm, btw). Madam, I don't know how you can continue to post such total FALSEHOODS and 100% pure unadulterated Democrat/Leftist propaganda. It's so outrageous and ludicrous that it doesn't pass the smell test. 15 million didn't starve to death under Hoover. That is more the reality in Soviet Russia where those in rural areas were DELIBERATELY starved to death by Stalin. How can you, as a former teacher, continue to willfully propagate such debunked lies ? But you remind me of how FDR and the Democrats were able to win and hold onto power for years on end. They repeat lies such as what you've stated and report them as facts. You hear a lie enough times and it becomes truth. The Democrat party was constructed on a mountain of lies and criminality, by deceiving the people and making slaves of the population and exploiting their ignorance of truth.
There are other sources...It is common sense...between 1929 and 1933, the unemployment rose to 25% from about 4%, this does not even consider the farm workers. There were no social programs...we know for sure that people were tossed out of their homes,there are pictures of the Hoovervilles, there are the stories of the survivors as well. There is no doubt that people died of starvation as well as other depression related reasons...what did you think it was a Walton rerun? There are three men in a two block radius of where I live who have killed themselves in the last two months...they lost their jobs...two worked at Delphi. I don’t about the third. Tough economic times have consequences. Whitewashing history is never a good idea.