Unemployment rates in the US during the Great Depression.
1930--3.2 percent
1931--15.9 percent
1932--23.6 percent
1933--24.9 percent
1934--21.7 percent
1935--20.1 percent
1936--16.9 percent
1937--14.3 percent
1938--19.0 percent
1939--17.2 percent
30 %
Unemployed you gobble goose! :)
A shantytown built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s.
More than 25% of the population in the USA was unemployed.
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.
Hoovervilles are towns of shacks and tents.
depression
Unemployed you gobble goose! :)
a shantytown built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s.
1/6 people were poor/unemployed during the great drepression.
A shantytown built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s.
More than 25% of the population in the USA was unemployed.
Flagler County has the highest percentage of people unemployed! The percentage is 16.4 %.
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.
Hoovervilles are towns of shacks and tents.
They created new jobs for people, and for those unemployed, they opened up work camps. http://www.stocks-simplified.com/Great-Depression-in-Canada.html
The term "Hoovervilles" refers to the clusters of makeshift cardboard and scrap metal homes built by unemployed people during the Great Depression. These makeshift settlements were named after President Herbert Hoover, who was widely blamed for the economic crisis.
During the depression, Hitler's party, the Nazis promised that they would provide work for the mass unemployed. There were many people unemployed in the depression and they were desperate for work after all of the problems in the previous years. These were the first world war, hyperinflation and the attempted coups.