impossible. So how did they manage to survive? Anyone can tell you that the

1930's were no picnic. Unemployment was up to 600% in 1933 from 1928,

leaving 12.8 million people without jobs. 4,004 banks were suspended in

1933 due to "financial difficulties." The value if U.S. exports was down $2.5

billion from 1928. And to top it all off, the whole Great Plains was shut down

due to dust bowls. Roosevelt's New Deal attacked this developing situation,

but his work just put a dent in the already booming depression. The whole

world, in fact, was in the same fix we were in. Due to the war and the U.S.

raising the tariffs, other countries had few other countries to trade with. These

countries couldn't support themselves in their current condition, due to the

war reparations and costs of casualties from both man and machine. People

on the West Coast were only a little better off than the rest of the nation, and

even that didn't last long because

were unemployed, which represented 25% of the labor force of the U.S.

trucks down the road and overtaking them to mug the garbage men of their

just kept piling up.The United Auto Workers declared a sit-down strike in

Wages had dropped to as little as a nickel for a hard hours work. More than

America did survive. Many died and some lost everything, but Roosevelt's

billion agency called the Public Works Administration, (PWA) designed to

Ida Fuller, who paid about $24 of payroll taxes before retiring, and later

allowing the Wagner Act of 1935 to fortify, allowing the American employees

camps for these people to live in. However, some people were forced to live

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