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During the Great Depression the economy was so bad that people could only get a certain amount of gas per month. Also, people had milk stamps that would only allow them to get a certain amount of milk per month.
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On "Black Tuesday," October of 1929, the market lost $14 billion, which made the amount of money lost for that week around $30 billion. This was ten times more than the yearly budget and way more than the U.S. had spent in WWI. $30 billion dollars then would be equivalent to $377,587,032,770 today.
The Great Depression was the deepest and longest-lasting downfall of the economy. In the U.S. the Great Depression began right after the market crash in 1929, which sent Wall Street into trepidation, or panic.
The Great Depression changed the family in several ways. A lot of couples delayed marriage, and divorce rates and birth rates dropped. Several men also abandoned their families. A poll taken showed that 1.5 million married women were abandoned by their husbands.
Severe drought and dust storms worsened the Great Depression because it dried out farmlands and forced families to leave their farms. On May 9, 1934, a dust storm carried an estimated 350 million tons of dirt 2,000 miles east ward and left four million tons of prairie dirt in Chicago.
During the Great Depression a lot of people turned to crime. There were several kidnappings, murders, and suicides. People would even rent hotel rooms just so they could jump out of the windows.
Before the Great Depression income was around $2,300 and during the Great Depression income was around $1,500, which was a 40% drop. During, manufacturing employees earned about $17 per week and doctors earned about $61 per week.