Like many cities in the South, Atlanta was poorly prepared to meet the emergency of the Great Depression. Which statement best describes how Atlanta was poorly prepared?

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Like many cities in the South, Atlanta was poorly prepared to meet the emergency of the Great Depression. The statement that best describes how Atlanta was poorly prepared is "There were only a few programs to help the unemployed."

After many years of prosperity, the city of Atlanta was hit hard by the Great Depression. Indeed, there were not really many government agencies prepared to confront a severe economic crisis such as the Great Depression.

Let's remember that the US stock market crashed on October 29, 1929, the date that represented the beginning of the Great Depression. Millions of American citizens lost their job, companies broke, and banks went into bankruptcy.

a: social security and social programs

as university of miami psychologists debra lieberman and adam smith pointed out in a recent article in the journal current directions in psychological science, humans have social and psychological mechanisms to deter incest. with very few exceptions, marriages between brothers and sisters and between parents and their children are verboten in every human culture. the primary psychological anti-incest mechanism is the yuck response. even the idea of sex with their mom or dad, bro or sis is upsetting to most people. the psychologist jonathan haidt has found that nearly everyone is repelled by the prospect of brother-sister sex, even in hypothetical situations in which there is no chance of pregnancy).

the biological cost of incest

this raises an interesting question: just what’s so bad about incest? sure, having sex with your dad or your sister seems gross — but why? some anthropologists have argued that incest taboos are learned social conventions. this explanation, however, doesn’t make sense to me as it does not explain the widespread existence of anti-incest mechanisms in creatures ranging from cockroaches to chimpanzees. second, the incest taboo is about as close to a universal law as human moral rules get.

why should mechanisms to avoid incest be so widespread both in nature and across human societies? the answer is simple. the problem with having sex close with relatives is that there is an astonishingly high chance that your offspring will be born with a serious birth defect.