You could be a millionaire and still get the state pension or you could be somebody on the breadlines is another thing that's really coming under scrutiny.
Instead of well-fed Americans driving to good jobs in new cars, by the end of Hoover's term, they stood in breadlines or sold apples on street corners.
Farm Belt towns were deserted; in New York City, public school leaders said that about 20,000 children were malnourished; formerly self-reliant men stood in breadlines waiting for soup.