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In terms of accessibility, elderly Latinos forgo doctor visits even though they are Medicare insured because they cannot cover out-of-pocket costs. Similarly, low finances make impose difficulties in paying for transportation. Like other minority groups, elderly Latinos have to rely solely on Social Security, with only 20% of them having private pension and 27% having income from assets, compared to a higher 43% and 67%, respectively, in non-Latino groups (Wallace). The low finance elderly Latinos experience results from overrepresentation in low-wage jobs that don’t offer retirement benefits (Wallace)..

During the Mexican era of 1821 to around 1848, the people in California realized how beneficial it would be to start getting more involved in the world’s economy. They participated in the economy through the hide and tallow trade which involved trading with Russia, England, Mexico, and France among other countries. This was an important step in the process with trying to become more independent from Mexico. A downside of the trade system is that the Indians had to work on specific tasks that the Californios didn’t want to do themselves, like working with the cattle. They were used since people could get away at giving them incredibly small wages and assumingly bad working conditions (Cherny, 93). Another example of the bad side of trades

Firstly, poverty brought on by the Great Depression spread throughout the country and made unemployment increase significantly. The output of crops in the Midwest significantly decreased because of the winds and dirt deposits onto the crops of the Dust Bowl. In Text 4, Franklin Delano Roosevelt states, “a host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence…. Our greatest primary task is to put people to work.” The quote represents the fact that unemployment in America was in such a bad spot where the government needed to step in and help the majority of the people who were not financially stable. Another cause why American economy crashed is because employers realized that people would do anything for work and work for just about anything, so their immediate response was to lower worker’s wages so the employers made more money. It says in Text 3, “The volume of manufactured goods dropped sharply, as did the national payroll. The response was to lay off workers, slash dividends, reduce inventories, cut remaining wages, forgo improvements and reduce production.” The quote depicts economic struggles workers dealt with throughout the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. Overall, unemployment gripped the workforce of America, making it the worst economic depression America has ever been in.

The era known as the “Great Depression”, as its name implies, was a time of tremendous difficulty for all Americans. The stock market crash of 1929 left thousands of families out of employment and many were left unable to afford basic necessities we take for granted like a home, clothing and food. Although everyone suffered at this time in American History, not everyone suffered to the same degree. Mexican Americans were faced with some of the worst circumstances during the Great Depression because not only were they blamed incessantly by whites for the effects of the depression due to the “mexican problem” idea, but they were also living under an umbrella of threats of deportation back to their homeland.

Bryan Iguchi had this beautiful narration that set the tone for what was next to come. Along with this narration came some beautiful shots of nature with an amazing soundtrack behind all this.

Second, migrant workers had to go to different places to find work during the Great Depression. The reason why is because they wouldn’t have anywhere to work at that time in the town that they lived in. Cynthia Crossen wrote “the migrants left and lost homes looking for jobs in California or in cities” (page 1). This shows how difficult it was for people who had to go and look for jobs in different areas. A lot of the migrant workers worked on farms while others might work in factories or keep on going to look for a job if there aren’t any in that area. Therefore it was really difficult for them to find jobs that they could do. But not only was it difficult they also had to travel a long way to where ever they were going to get a

The Great Depression is the worst economic collapse in modern history (History). Many people went unemployed and many migrated from place to place looking for jobs and most of the time the jobs were not permanent. The harsh times affected all parts of the United States and the people, around 15 million people went unemployed (PBS). Due to the economy migrant workers had little pay, the critic Duncan Reith says, “In the middle of the Great Depression, the influx of a million migrants into California from the Dustbowl states had made labour even cheaper, and competition for jobs was fierce” (Reith). Above all the cheap labor a factor which greatly affected migrant workers during the time and often were subject of abuse by their employer.

In October 1929, the stock market in the United States crashed. The life Americans once experienced during the early part of the 1920’s quickly faded away. By the year 1933 it was recorded that at least 25% or 13 million people in the labor force was unemployed. As the newly elected president, Theodore

Immigration has changed drastically from the start of the 20th century up to the current age. Immigration is a topic that has had much controversy and debate with each new election and each year that passes. Liberals and Conservatives have many opposing viewpoints when it comes to such a touchy subject as that of immigration. Currently, Presidential candidate Donald Trump has some of the most controversial policies, ideas and thoughts pertaining to the current status of illegal immigrants entering the nation. This has sparked heated debate throughout both political parties and the American society that is currently setting the stage for a division between Trump supporters and other Americans that are more lenient with immigration. During the time of the Great Depression most of the world fell into a deep economic hole. Not many people could afford to move to different countries, nor wanted to due to the high rate of poverty throughout the world. This eventually changed over time. The main reasons behind immigrants migrating to other countries during the early 20th century were for religious and political reasons as well as relief from a lack of economic opportunity.

"People caught in their own yards grope for the doorstep. Cars come to a standstill, for no light in the world can penetrate that swirling murk…. The nightmare is deepest during the storms. But on the occasional bright day and the usual gray day we cannot shake from it. We live with the dust, eat it, sleep with it, watch it strip us of possessions and the hope of possessions” (Carlson). The Great Depression was a time of great poverty, low income, and decline of population. The Great depression was the result of many factors, some of which included the crash of the stock market, struggling to make money, people borrowing too much money, overly-produced goods, bank failures, and the world’s debt in trade. Many people during this time lost their jobs and many families were too poor to send their kids to school. Many farmers had fled to California in search of jobs and better

Imagine yourself as an adult in the 1900’s hundreds when the Great Depression has just started. You no longer have a house and you live in a small tent with wooden sticks barely holding up your so called “house.” Sleeping under the cold night sky on top of old discarded newspapers .While laying down tired and hungry you think where would I be if this didn’t happen? During this misery people called this the time of The Great Depression it had many downturns in people’s lives, like the Stock market Crash of 1929 and the bank Failures of 1933. Although there was a good turn out called the New Deal. These were some of the causes of The Great Depression.

With origins that can be traced to the mid-nineteenth century, migration from Mexico to the United States has constituted the greatest consistent movement of migrant labor encompassing both the previous and current centuries. There have been a number of periodizations of this history, including one consisting of basic timeframes, which are 1900 to 1930, 1942 to 1964, and the 1980s to the present. This chronological approach focuses on industrial enterprises and/or economic policies originating from the U.S. enacted with the acquiescence of elites in Mexico. The guest worker program agreed to by Mexico and the United States known as the Bracero Program (1942 to 1964) increased the border area population and significantly has impacted the

Over the decades, the spending, consumer investment had dropped low, causing a high level of rising unemployment as failing businesses had laid off employees. By 1933, once the Great Depression had reached from 13-15 million Americans, which were unemployed and almost half of the nation’s banks had failed. Through the relief and improvement measures

10,000 people attempt to cross the Mexican border into America every week with a 66 percent success rate. Mexico is a poor country with 40 percent of the population below the poverty line. This is why so many Mexicans decide to move to the US, where they will have a minimum wage that assures they will make money to send back to their families. Usually it is the men or fathers of a family that cross the border and send money back to their families. There is a desert between the Mexican and USA border which in 2001 caused around 850 immigrants to die and around 4,000

The primary group of Latin American migrants have been Mexicans, which shares a 2,000 mile land border to the United States (Patler lecture 2017). Although the US annexed a large portion of Mexico in the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in 1848, Mexican migration was not significant until 1900 (Massey, Durand, and Malone 2002). From 1900-1929, US private labor contractors recruited Mexican laborers to the United States where there were labor shortages in the era known as the Enganche (Massey et al. 2002). However, due to massive unemployment caused by the Great Depression in 1929, US politicians decided to deport nearly half of the Mexican immigrant population in the 1930s.