[djone]

"By 1932 the national unemployment rate had soared past 20 per cent, and millions of men and women were homeless, forced to live on the street and forage for scraps in garbage cans. As a result of widespread bank failures, many people lost their jobs and homes, and were forced to move to makeshift camps and shantytowns.

[Starstruck]

Ha ha. Family of eight living in a four bedroom house. I grew up in the fifties in a two bedroom house in which my dad converted the garage into a third bedroom. There were eight of us. My sister got one room, mom and dad one and us five boys got the third. We knew we weren’t rich but we also knew we were not poor.

[bgill]

What problem does the author see in these houses? People are living in some just like those today. Nice furniture, too. That garden is fantastic.

[Gabrial]

You could take a camera into Detroit today and within an hour shoot pictures much worse than these.

[Mike Darancette]

The “Okies” that came to the Central Valley to eek out a bare living picking crops ended up owning many of those farms. Only in America.

[Gay State Conservative]

I just picked up a bluray copy of The Grapes of Wrath and watched it again."Amazing" is all I can say about that true classic.My parents were both Depression babies.My Dad told us some stories whereas my Mom died when I was young so I heard little of her life.About the only thing I ever heard Tom Brokaw say that was worth anything was when he called that generation “The Greatest Generation”.Having lived through the Depression and then having endured WWII earned them that title,IMO.

[Tijeras_Slim]

bflr

[CodeToad]

The web site says the “situation as far less bleak” referring to the GD, however, the GD didn’t have welfare as we have it today. 46 million people are on food stamps and the welfare rolls for other services are at an all-time high.