Families would lose their car and house during the Great Depression. Families would lose their jobs, so there was no sort of income to support their household. They could not provide food, electricity for the house, or anything that needs to be paid for to be used like water. People would roam the streets searching in garbage cans eating leftovers. Everybody was wild for food.

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