Many people in the depression did not have work. Clancy Strock commented on the conditions during the Great Depression,“If you didn’t have work, you couldn’t pay the rent and if you couldn’t pay the rent, you looked for relatives who could take you in” Clancy Strock (Reiman 48).   Since work was so important, families traveled extremely far to find work (Reiman 50-51).  Now, the government tries to create jobs to prevent the United States. from going into a depression.  Truly, during the depression work was a necessity to pay for the needs of a family, so people looked far and near to find a job.