WITHOUT WORK.
TWO AND A HALF MILLIONS IN UNITED STATES. CENSUS BUREAU RETURNS. A SERIOUS POSITION. WASHINGTON, August 24. The nation’s unemployed numbered 2,508,151 when the Census was taken in April, the Census Bureau announced to-day. This was 2 per cent, of the country’s total poulation, and 5.2 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, able to work, and seeking employment at the time the Census was taken. It does not inelude several other classes of those with jobs who were laid off without pay.
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Wairarapa Age, 26 August 1930, Page 5
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104WITHOUT WORK. Wairarapa Age, 26 August 1930, Page 5
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