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[[image:Poor_kids.jpg align="right" caption="This is what the Muckrakers dug up" link="Indstry es"]]Muckrakers
This nickname was given to journalists who reported faulty social conditions and political corruption by President Roosevelt. It is a term from john Bunyan's book //Pilgrim's Progress//. This character "single-mindedly scraped up the filth on the ground." Muckrakers wrote about scandal and corruption. Much corruption was uncovered by these Muckrackers; The Beef industry, The Standard Oil Company, government and social problems, ect. "Beds are there, if the old boxes and heaps of foul straw can be called by that name; a broken stove with crazy pipe from which the smoke leaks at every joint, a table of rough boards propped up on boxes, piles of rubbish in the corner." -Jacob Riis //How the Other Half Lives//