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"It was a difficult and unprofitable life."

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Many tenant farmers in the South were renting land, so they would have to give about 25% of their crops to their landlords. Many of them would earn less than $200 per year and would often lose all of their crops to the landlord. They would face the most poverty as they made the least amount of money and at these times would not be able to sell a lot of their products. Some farmers sharecropped, but that made half of their profit go to the landlords and some landlords would cheat them out of the money they earned and only gained about $100 per year.

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"These makeshift shantytowns, filled with hunger, crime, and disease, provided a final refugee for people with no place left to go."

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The city was unsanitary and crowded. Many people who were evicted would use cardboard to live in and would look for scraps of food. The places filled with these homes were called Hoovervilles because president Hoover did not help the people. Hoover only made programs where people would volunteer to help their community out, but they were not very successful. The Hoovervilles had no food, no electricity, etc., the people were fending for themselves and some would go into animal pens at night to get some source of food. For people, their prize possessions were their cars and would keep them as long as they could.

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Women were working to help keep their family up, but once the Great Depression hit hard, people were laying off the women. People laid off married women and would not hire them because they were gaining support from their husbands. In the 1930s however, they started to rise in positions like teachers, secretaries, maids, seamstresses, etc. Children had to start to work as well and take on responsibilities early in their life. There were a lot of women who did not have food, but were often not seen as in poverty because many were married or were seen as having their life easier.

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"That year I made a 'short' crop and was unable to 'pay out' "

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"so many of them continued to depend on the breadlines... organizations dispensed bread and soup."

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"Married women were especially frowned upon, since supposedly their husbands were supporting them."

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"We sit here every day, waiting for a job. There are no jobs. Most of us have had no breakfast."