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30 Eye-Opening Facts About Average Life During The Great Depression

Migrant Mother - Dorothea Lange

Stalled on the desert, facing a future in California. No money, ten children. From Chickasaw, Oklahoma, 1937. Dorothea Lange/History In Photos.

6. Your Hopes Were Most Likely Crushed in 1936

By 1936, the economic reforms implemented by FDR’s New Deal had turned the country around so much that the economic indicators, such as employment, were at the same level as they were before the Depression. He scaled back government spending, and the country fell back into decline.

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