All posts tagged "homelessness"

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  The She-She-She Camps of the Great Depression

  The Civilian Conservation Corps gave millions of young men a job and their families a lifeline with money they sent home every...

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  When Poor Apprentice Laborers Were 2 Years Old

  In 1754, Boston’s overseer of the poor bound out Joseph Clifton, aged two, as an apprentice to Aaron Clinton, a brickmaker in...