The excerpt below is from Zaimen Yoffeh, a Jewish immigrant journalist who lived in a
New York tenement as a child. Which statement best summarizes his writing?
With... one dollar a day (our mother)fed and clothed an ever-growing family.
She took in boarders. Sometimes this helped, at other times it added to the
burden of living Boarders were often out of work and penniless; how could one
turn a hungry man out? She made all our clothes. She walked blocks to reach o
place where meat was a penny cheaper, where bread was a half cent less. She
collected boxes and old wood to burn in the stove."
We will return to Europe as soon as we can buy passage back home.
We could not have survived without the help of Tammany Hall.
Immigrants and farmers can find good paying jobs in urban areas.
Immigrants faced difficult conditions living in large cities.
