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Food During the Great Depression

Lectures in History

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Being Poor Was Not Enough to Get You Help in the 19 Thirties

Being poor was not enough to get you help in the 19 thirties. People who had fallen into poverty felt like their situation was considerably worse than people who'd been poor all along. A lot of single, never married mothers would not have been considered for aid because they lived outside a society's emoral confines.

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