The unemployed faced extreme hardships during the Depression . They often stood in line for hours to receive food. Many of them were homeless.
The government set up camps during the Great Depression to help the unemployed.
September 1928....... 650,000 unemployed September 1929....... 1,320,000 unemployed September 1930........3,000,000 unemployed September 1931....... 4,350,000 unemployed September 1932....... 5,102,000 unemployed January 1933 6.........100,000 unemployed
depression
That figure is hard to measure as record keeping was not as effective and detailed as it is today. Four million workers lost their jobs during the first year of the Great Depression. By 1931, 100,000 workers a week lost their job. In 1932, about 25 percent of the workforce was unemployed. At the peak of the Depression, it is estimated that 35-40 percent of the workforce was unemployed. Many workers didn't even bother to try and look for jobs so there is no way to accurately gauge the correct percent of unemployed.
Depression
a shantytown built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s.
Reduced income for starters. Depression, loss of self worth.
Unemployed you gobble goose! :)
Hooverville
There were only a few programs to help the unemployed.
A lot, nearly the amount of men in your dad's bed
for failing to provide for their families