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In the 1930s millions of able-bodied Americans were thrown out of work and onto breadlines through no fault of their own.
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Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 25 Apr. 2023
The iconography of that desperate, national hunger is so ingrained that a life-size breadline sculpture is incorporated into the presidential memorial for FDR in Washington, DC, a portrait of one of the nation’s darkest hours, as the land of plenty was found wanting.
—Garrett M. Graff, Wired, 5 June 2020
The publication covers homelessness and housing, and is sold by rough sleepers and other people below the breadline as a way of making a weekly income.
—Max Foster and Rob Picheta, CNN, 10 June 2022
Medical workers picked shards of glass out of the faces, arms and legs of civilians wounded in the breadline.
—Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2022
Jimmy Hill was in Ukraine at the time to help his partner get critical health care procedures when he was reportedly killed in a breadline.
—Fox News, 19 Mar. 2022
Too often during bankruptcy proceedings, remediation costs are shunted to the back of the breadline after creditors, executives, employees, and vendors take their share of the company’s assets.
—Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 12 Apr. 2021
Police officers on bikes circled while volunteers finished placing the last barricades that would split the modern day breadline into two lanes.
—Nic Garcia, Dallas News, 23 July 2020
The loneliness of a single mother on the breadline, for example, is very different to that of an elderly man whose peers have died, or a teenager who is connected online but lacks offline friendships.
—Fay Bound Alberti, Quartz, 25 Nov. 2019
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Naomi Oreskes, Scientific American, 25 Apr. 2023
The iconography of that desperate, national hunger is so ingrained that a life-size breadline sculpture is incorporated into the presidential memorial for FDR in Washington, DC, a portrait of one of the nation’s darkest hours, as the land of plenty was found wanting.
—Garrett M. Graff, Wired, 5 June 2020
The publication covers homelessness and housing, and is sold by rough sleepers and other people below the breadline as a way of making a weekly income.
—Max Foster and Rob Picheta, CNN, 10 June 2022
Medical workers picked shards of glass out of the faces, arms and legs of civilians wounded in the breadline.
—Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2022
Jimmy Hill was in Ukraine at the time to help his partner get critical health care procedures when he was reportedly killed in a breadline.
—Fox News, 19 Mar. 2022
Too often during bankruptcy proceedings, remediation costs are shunted to the back of the breadline after creditors, executives, employees, and vendors take their share of the company’s assets.
—Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 12 Apr. 2021
Police officers on bikes circled while volunteers finished placing the last barricades that would split the modern day breadline into two lanes.
—Nic Garcia, Dallas News, 23 July 2020
The loneliness of a single mother on the breadline, for example, is very different to that of an elderly man whose peers have died, or a teenager who is connected online but lacks offline friendships.
—Fay Bound Alberti, Quartz, 25 Nov. 2019
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“Breadline.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/breadline. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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breadline
noun
bread·line
-ˌlīn 
: a line of people waiting to receive free food
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