DADS

JACKSON, MI – Dads and their daughters can enjoy a night out in the city at Jackson’s Daddy Daughter Dance. The 23rd annual Jamie McKibbin Memorial Daddy Daughter Dance is 6-8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Feb. 10-11, at the American 1 Credit Union Event Center, 128 W. Ganson St. at the Jackson County Fairgrounds/Keeley Park. The event gives dads, grandfathers, uncles or brothers the chance to take their young daughters, granddaughters, nieces or sisters to a Valentine’s Day dance. Guests can pick between attending the Friday or Saturday dance. Tickets are $20 per person for Jackson Public Schools students and $25 for all other students.

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This was during the early 1930s, the worst period in the terrible, relentless, seemingly endless Great Depression. The depths of that economic collapse, reinforced by extreme protectionism in our country and industrial nations across the world, is today difficult to grasp. The New Deal spurred public confidence, stabilized the financial system and brought basic social reforms, notably Social Security and Unemployment Insurance. That quality was crucial then, and will help us conquer the challenging public health threat now. Arthur I. Cyr is Clausen Distinguished Professor at Carthage College and author of After the Cold War (NYU Press and Macmillan).