hours and less pay made it difficult for even the fully employed to make ends meet. "For the majority of the jobless, still rooted in family units, months, even years of joblessness had exhausted their savings and driven them to seek the cheapest and most dilapidated housing" (Nardo 60). Many Americans traveled throughout the country looking for a place to work to support themselves and their family. More often then none, they were turned down because of the scarcity of work and had to resort to the few things they were left with to survive. The unemployment of many Americans adds to the economic struggles faced during devastating times.
             The Great Depression also impacted the economic status of the farmers. They were perhaps the largest group of people to be affected by the devastation. "Farmers faced total ruin – crop and equipment losses, mortgage foreclosures, bankruptcy dispossession" (Burg 63). The farmers were already not doing well because they were producing
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