starvation and illness
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Unemployed and homeless Americans continued to starve and become ill. Twenty percent of American children in 1932 were found to be suffering from malnutrition, and as hundreds of thousands of families lived in very close quarters, Americans became vulnerable to deadly illnesses. With health care unaffordable to most Americans, many families found themselves suffering from the long term effects of a poor diet and illnesses.