Sorry, but this is a crock. I can remember people living in tar-paper shacks in the south in the 60s. My Mom wasn’t allowed to wear shoes to school until the first frost...then that afternoon, they would break out the shoes and try to figure out who could wear what.
Food stamps are a scam, run by government to justify their existence. I’ve never been on food stamps, but I can remember eating some mighty tough venison because that is what was left...and don’t get me started on the ‘food insecurity’ BS!
The poor have it great in America.
We have the richest poor people in the world.
I asked a guy from Kentucky what he remembered most about the '29 Depression. He said that was when they had a big pot of squirrel stew that had to last all week. After each meal, mom would add water to bring the level back up. He said that by the following Friday, that squirrel stew was pretty damn thin.