Economics And Social Life After 1920's

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These videos are about economics and political and social living after 1920’s because everything was supposed to be better than today's living. Economics are related to money and buying and selling things in the 1920 like how was it different from any other times. Politics are about anything like governments and laws and policies and passes laws and other things. Social care about anything social news like things that's going on outside of the economical and policials things it about new products and music and hair and things that happened.

Economics is like new businesses and and new companies and Megacorps. They got higher wages and working conditions. People would get supplies from the stores and grocery stores and say “they will pay later”.

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