Oklahomans
in potato pickers' camp near Shafter, California.
By 1932,
approximately 14,000,000
Americans were unemployed
(about 1/3 of the workforce).
At least 5,000
banks had failed taking millions
of peoples' savings.
Stock prices fell to 11% of their
1929 prices--a lose of $75,000,000,000!
[An Album of the Great Depression, William Loren Katz}]
The following figures are the percentages
of unemployed workers in the United States from 1929 to 1943. The
figures are from the United States Bureau Of The Census.
YEAR %
1929 3.2
1930 8.7
1931 15.9
1932 23.6
1933 24.9
1934 21.7
1935 20.1
1936 16.9
1937
14.3
1938
19.0
1939 17.2
1940 14.6
1941 9.9
1942 4.7
1943
1.9
Oklahomans
in potato pickers' camp near Shafter, California.
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