KIDS DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION

CHILD LABOR

• Children worked intead of education
• Help earn money
• Long grueling hours
• Just because the economy was unstabalized

RUN AWAY

• For better life
• In boxcars
• Teenagers [+12]
• Some families runed away together
• Other did it to survive, or help their families with one more mouth to feed

Conditions were terrible; children were homeless, hungry, uneducated, and lost

WHEN CHILDREN RUNNED AWAY...

• Few jobs most of the kids went the wrong way:
• Prostitution
• Armed robbery
• Commiting falonies

MANY WERE ORPHANS

• Parents died
• Gave them up for adoption
• Boxcars run aways
• More colored orphans

"We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future"
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

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