History of the United States II / Unit 10 USH2 1373 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Scale of Hardship
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The idea
By the end of nineteen thirty-two about sixty million Americans were affected by the Depression, the anchor says.
In practice
New York City's eighty-two breadlines and soup kitchens serving up to eighty-five thousand meals a day.
Where people slip
New York had nearly one million unemployed and more than fifty thousand homeless; Chicago had more than five hundred thousand out of work.
Your place on the trail
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