How The Great Depression Changed My Life

I was ten years old, when the effects of the Great Depression finally hit my family. My family had been doing good compared to the other families that I knew, but in 1934, my life changed for the worse. The clothing company that my father and mother had been working for was struggling and every month more and more workers were getting fired. The company didn’t need as many workers, because they didn’t sell as many clothes as they did before. Then one day my mother and father came home weeping, when me and my siblings asked what happened we were upset to hear that both of them had lost their jobs. They immediately went to find a new job, but because all the businesses were struggling nobody had a job for them. Even after three months, they could