Why Did People Survive During The Great Depression

How did people survive during the Great Depression? What did they do for food and money? What happened when everyone lost their money? During the Great Depression people had to find any job they could, take money out of the bank, make sacrifices, and live on the side of the road. No one was protected from this, there was nothing they could do to stop the Depression. In the Great Depression, people had to take any job they could to make money and support their family. Most of the time Dads would be the ones to go out and work, “Dad sold iron cords, cut hair, sold coal, and worked on WPA” (Hastings). Parents had to take any job they could in order to survive. People had to “sell their Model T, stop eating ice, drinking milk, disconnect their