Answer:
Life would have been terrible. As described, they had to move from place to place. Their children might have been forced to work in factories as well, paid in pennies; the mininum wage. Thousands were evicted from their homes and forced to live in the streets in "box homes" and many people were starving. They had to depend on soup kitchens to give out free food. The stock market also crashed, leavin them in great debt that would probably take a long time to recover. The banks also stole their money and waged it wrong.