
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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