they tried to do whatever they could to make money. This involved selling apples and fruit.
The government set up camps during the Great Depression to help the unemployed.
Unemployed you gobble goose! :)
Hooverville
1/6 people were poor/unemployed during the great drepression.
for failing to provide for their families
More than 25% of the population in the USA was unemployed.
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
No, the Tennessee Valley Authority was created during the Great Depression of the 1930s to provide jobs for some of the unemployed.
The unemployed faced extreme hardships during the Depression . They often stood in line for hours to receive food. Many of them were homeless.
Relieved, they were past embarrassment because they were starving.
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.
Giving relief to the unemployed, reform of business and financial practices, and promoting recovery of the economy during The Great Depression