https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/149yg8/how_many_americans_died_of_hunger_during_the/ The stats for deaths during the great depression are recorded all over various state archives.
Here's a study on death rates in the united states during the great depression, there's really not that many excess deaths. https://jech.bmj.com/content/66/5/410.abstract?sid=5c77edc9-6cfa-4154-be20-8272b1ca03b4
Yeah I've seen that, it's really bad scholarship and is not at all accurate. Like the population data is straight up wrong just using the 1930 and 1940 census and the comparison of the PWA to the gulag system is ludicrous. Like the population growth 1920-1930 was 13 percent. From 1930 to 1940 it was 7.5. This is basically all accountable in the immigration restrictions made in 1924, and the lower birth rate due to the great depression.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/149yg8/how_many_americans_died_of_hunger_during_the/ The stats for deaths during the great depression are recorded all over various state archives.
Here's a study on death rates in the united states during the great depression, there's really not that many excess deaths. https://jech.bmj.com/content/66/5/410.abstract?sid=5c77edc9-6cfa-4154-be20-8272b1ca03b4
This is a gem though, basically using the same methods used to calculate the Holodomor and applying it to the Great Depression.
Yeah I've seen that, it's really bad scholarship and is not at all accurate. Like the population data is straight up wrong just using the 1930 and 1940 census and the comparison of the PWA to the gulag system is ludicrous. Like the population growth 1920-1930 was 13 percent. From 1930 to 1940 it was 7.5. This is basically all accountable in the immigration restrictions made in 1924, and the lower birth rate due to the great depression.
Don’t forget that lower birth rates are chucked into lots of anti-communist stats though.
But yeah I figured the scholarship on this was garbage.