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The social impacts of the Great Depression included:

  • Unemployment rising to 25% of the workforce
  • Reduced wages for those who were employed, forcing them to economize, often by working harder at home
  • Defaulting on loans and mortgages
  • Homelessness
  • Children dropping out of school
  • Disruption of families as men went out of work
  • Increase in racial prejudice and xenophobia
  • Rise of fringe political groups

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