FIVE PER CENT. WORKLESS
■2,500.009 IN UNITED ES. ' Ji By Telegraph—Press Assn.-S-Copyright. Washington, Aug. 24. The nation’s unemployed numbered 2.508,151 when the census was taken in April. • The census bureau announced that this was 2'per cent. ■of the country's total population .and-5.2 per cent, of: the estimated number of workers—• five of . every 100 persons- who wanted >work were without it. ■ The figure? include only those without jobs,’able to work--and seeking went at the tinie .the. census was taken. They do not- include' s'e'veral/othei - classes; snen as those with .job’s viho were laid off ‘ without pay. :
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 August 1930, Page 15
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