It trumped every other issue in the presidential campaign. It caused the government to funnel $700 billion into the stock market. It has your parents worried about their retirement savings. And it is causing people to lose their homes, jobs and peace of mind. Today’s economic crisis is already painful for some, and worrisome for all. ThreeSixty reporters profile three people who survived extreme hardship around the globe — the Great Depression in America, the Great Leap Forward in China and genocide in Bosnia — people who share their wisdom gained from hardship.
Lessons Learned from Surviving Hardship
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Lesson from China's Great Leap Forward: Don't blindly follow leaders
My grandpa Yue Zhou was a 27-year-old college instructor in communist China at the time of the Great Leap Forward, which took place from 1958 through 1963, and it was a time of extreme hardship for the people of China. Read More
Lessons from the Great Depression made fresh
“As a matter of fact we have a depression now because of all the credit consumers borrowed. Read More
Teen's life split into before and after the war in Bosnia
Rijada Sulijic is an American girl who loves to hang out with her friends and work at Cub Foods, but the 18-year-old high school student is also a Bosnian girl who survived an ethnic war in Bosnia in which thousands of people like her were killed. Read More
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