iddle-class to receive 30 percent of the national income, where as the lower class (bottom 40 percent)1 got only 12.50 percent. This left the majority unable to spend the necessary amount of money to pull out the economy up put of its down ward spiral.
             Middle class families affected by the depression still held on to its tradition of families roles. The husband would still be the bread winner and the wife would still be the homemaker, but if a woman did take up a job she would still be expected to perform all her same duties as before. Families held on to their pride and would sometime starve before they would get aid from bread lines, but generally this class level was able to maintain their way of life due to the lower cost of living because of deflation.
             The upper and the middle class had relative stability while the lower class was hit with harder times partly because of the
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