Life in the Depression was hard. Many more people were pushed into bankruptcy and poverty. The head of the house hold had more responsibilities to take care of. People were homeless and hungry and the government could not come up the help that was needed fast enough. People fought over barrels of garbage. Medicaid, food stamps, and unemployment checks were created in order to help the needed families. Many people felt it was their fault that they had failed; therefore, they isolated themselves inside their homes. Other people who worked, worked in lowly conditions and their wages were lowered to not enough to get by. People who did not want to earn the money assigned were replaced with people who did in order to get the job done.