WORKLESS PEOPLE IN U.S.A.
TWO AND A-HALF MILLION AT APRIL CENSUS. <By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) V (Received This Day, 10.25 a.m.) WASHINGTON, August 24.
The nation’s unemployed were numbered at 2,508,151 when the census was taken in April. The Census Bureau has announced that this was 2 per ■■cent. of the country’s total population •and 5.1 per cent, of the estimated number of workers. Five'; out of every 100 persons who wanted work were jobless. 'The figures include only those without jobs and who were able to •work and were seeking employment at ithe time the census was taken. They •do not include several otlier classes, such as those with jobs who are laid •off without pay.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 August 1930, Page 5
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