How's a Man to Find Hope Mousepad

This is the picture that spurred all the songs I've written about people in hard times: "Bowery men waiting for bread in a bread line, New York City," from the George Grantham Bain Collection at the U.S. Library of Congress. You can learn more about it and hear the song "How's a Man to Find Hope in These Hard Times" at http://bryankirschner.com/ep. A few lines from the song: When things went bad back in twenty nine / I would start my days on the hiring line / ‘Till the man said stand for relief instead / I got a cup of cold coffee and a stale loaf of bread / Pride stuck in my gullet, eyes square on the floor / I said “with kids at home sir—could I have a little more?” /You’ll find me broke up, beat down, threadbare and poor / Shuffling along killing time / In the weeks months and years since they shut down that hiring line