30 Eye-Opening Facts About Average Life During The Great Depression

30 Eye-Opening Facts About Average Life During The Great Depression

Trista - December 22, 2018

30 Eye-Opening Facts About Average Life During The Great Depression
An impoverished American family living in a shanty in Elm Grove, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, in 1936. Dorothea Lange/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain.

23. Your Kids Had Rickets

As many as 50% of children who grew up during the Great Depression did not have enough food to eat, healthcare, or basic shelter. Many of them developed rickets, a preventable disease caused by malnutrition; today, rickets is rarely seen outside of the world’s poorest countries.

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