WPA (Works Progress/Work Projects Administration) worker and his wife sitting in front of their shack home on the Arkansas River near Webbers Falls, Oklahoma

Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, DC

This man said that last year he thought maybe he would be a little better off when he got the WPA work and had a small amount of cash coming in but that he was worse off now. “Last year I had a cow and some chickens and I had to sell my cow and eat my chickens. I get worse off every year”