History of the United States II / Unit 10 USH2 1392 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Unemployment Near a Quarter
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The idea
By early nineteen thirty-two unemployment was near twenty-five percent, the anchor says.
In practice
The Yawp's measure: at the Depression's lowest point, nearly one in four Americans who wanted a job could not find one.
Where people slip
Digital History puts unemployment at twenty-five percent by nineteen thirty-three, up from about three percent in nineteen twenty-nine.
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