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Picturing the Century for Kids: Great Low Mood Deepens Hardship
In the 1930s the United States faced ten years of economic crisis. The 1929 stock market crash signaled widespread hardship as factories closed and banks failed, leaving about 13 million Americans unemployed by 1933. Breadlines and soup kitchens arose, while recovery began in the early 1940s as World War II work started. The image shows a jobless man at a San Francisco breadline in 1933.
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