Depression-era tent city/poor people, unemployment line, shanty towns, men on streets
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As Roosevelt took office, the entire nation was suffering the same economic misfortunes that had befallen the Tennessee Valley for generations. The Great Depression robbed 15- million people of their jobs, 25-percent of the workforce. Shanty-towns popped-up everywhere, filled with drifters seeking employment. Men paraded through towns to offer their labor for one dollar a week.
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