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The unemployed faced extreme hardships during the Depression . They often stood in line for hours to receive food. Many of them were homeless.
A shantytown built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s.
The Great Depression of 1929 was so bad for Americans because it caused many people to become unemployed and sometimes homeless. There was also poverty, uprooting of families, and the loss of farms. In desperate situations, farmers even burned corn for fuel.
Look for low-income housing in your area, and get a job as soon as possible. Also look for government help for unemployed.
So many people ended up homeless during the Great Depression becuause they lost there jobs and had no money.
One out of every 4 British workers was unemployed, 40% of the German Labor force was unemployed at that same time, and the Unemployed and homeless filled the streets. The unemployment rate was not that bad everything was fine great Brattain was in a economic bomb.
A lot of homeless people have families, but a lot of them don't.
Unemployed, underemployed, broke and homeless.
Both include suffering of people. The unemployed and the homeless youth both shared: looking for jobs and having a decent place to live.
the homeless rate during the great depression was nearly 25 percent of Americans.
They often could not be the "breadwinner." Men were affected by the depression as they got unemployed and couldn't buy any products meaning they weren't fulfilling America's state of mind. So, they lost jobs and became homeless and malnutritioned.
A lot of homeless people are not alone. Sometimes whole families or single mothers/fathers with children are homeless. It is estimated that 50% of homeless people are children under the age of 18. That means that at least one of the parents are homeless also.