If you don;t think the great depression was horrible you are a fool.
The lower death rates might have come from people not getting enough to eat and so not having as many heart attacks?
But you are just plain stupid to even raise that point as the pain and suffering of the great depression was like few debacles in our history.
It was horrible beyond words with shanty towns and soup kitchens.
Here, learn some history!!
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 | Definition and Summary of the Great Depression Poverty
Summary and Definition: During the Great Depression massive numbers of Americans lived in poverty. The people who lived in poverty had been denied an income sufficient to meet their basic needs. During the Great Depression over 12 million Americans became unemployed and, at its peak, over 12,000 people were being made unemployed every single day. And there were few welfare or relief systems before 1935. People are defined as living in poverty when they are denied an income sufficient for their basic needs. 'Basic Needs' are defined as food, water, clothing and shelter. Mass unemployment, debt and homelessness all were featured in Great Depression Poverty.
What was the Great Depression Poverty Cycle? The Great Depression Poverty cycle was the apparently endless continuation of poverty triggered by a chain of events such as unemployment - homelessness - inadequate housing - hunger - family break-up - exclusion from from ordinary living patterns and activities - bad health and indications of a bleak future.
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<<Few millions into abject poverty and refused to help as they starved to death"
Great Depression Had Little Effect on Death Rates
Study: Life and death during the Great Depression - Phys.org
September 28, 2009,
The Great Depression had a silver lining: During that hard time, U.S. life expectancy actually increased by 6.2 years, according to a University of Michigan study published in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Life expectancy rose from 57.1 in 1929 to 63.3 years in 1932, according to the analysis by
U-M researchers José A. Tapia Granados and Ana Diez Roux. The increase occurred for both men and women, and for whites and non-whites. |
