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State of the Union FDR
By loozaydah
At the moment, the percentage of hungry families is at an all-
time high. Many used to salvage food by begging, stealing, or rummaging through garbage can
s. However, when my team traveled to New York City, they found over 80 soup kitchens
. They reported that the
soup kitchens served around 85,000 meals a day for those who did not have anything to eat. T
hese soup kitchens were organized across the country; their purpose is to feed anybody who d
oes not have a meal. People who need a meal wait in bread lines
for hours on end, just
for a bowl of soup and a peice of bread. For most, this meal would be the only thing they would
eat all day.
Over these past months my team and I have traveled to many states that were heavily affected
by the
Dust Bowl.
The dust was blown was so thick it was known as the Black
Blizzard.
For a whole year the only thing being produced by crops was dust. My team spoke with one of t
he eyewitnesses from this dust storm recalling the following, "The wind kept blowing harder and
harder. It kept getting darker and darker. And the old house is just a vibratin' like it was gonna
blow away... I finally touched the end of my nose and I still couldn't see my hand. That's how bl
ack it was!" We, along with many people would attempt to keep the dust away by covering our f
aces with pieces of cloth, or even putting a sheet over doorways. This has affected over a 100
million acres of farmland in Texas, Oklahoma, New

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State of the Union FDR By loozaydah At the moment, the percentage of hungry families is at an all­time high. Many  used to  salvage food by begging, stealing, or rummaging through garbage cans. However, when my  team traveled to New York City, they found ov ...
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