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["Marie McHarry" <mmcharry AT gmail.com>]

1933 was definitely the worse year, and the quickest stats I could
find were 24.9, which is within the margin of error.

Unemployed white men were the bulk of the people kicked out of their
jobs, so those numbers probably reflected the basic reality. It would
have been worse but much of the country was still rural and had food
handy to eat or barter. My mother was shocked when she went away to
college in the mid 1930s to find out that people were going hungry.
She never had (and her parents were never in danger of losing their
farm because they owned it).

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 11:53 AM, bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> Unemployment in 1933 was 25.2%, and if it occurs now, I would bet we'll see 
> it in 3 to 4 years, not 10.  By the way, Pollyana, I don't know exactly how 
> they counted unemployment numbers then, but I think that I have read that 
> it was pretty much unemployed white men who were counted.  If everyone who 
> wouldm have been willing to work had been counted, might the number have 
> been 50% ?  I really don't know .............bobf
>