The Unemployed During the Great Depression

During the Great Depression as we all know, many families were left out on the streets. But how many People were left Unemployed? During the worst year of the Depression it was as high as 25.1% of Americans who were left jobless. That’s a little over a quarter of the whole population having no income to feed their families and having enough for housing in an already tough situation of an economy which need no new employees. Although there was a push to have new jobs by Hoover, he insisted that local government was responsible for caring for the unemployed citizens living in clusters of makeshift unsanitary homes nicknamed “Hoovervilles”. As seen in the picture “Jobless men go home” by the Chamber of Commerce shows just how much help these people were receiving. Now this doesn’t mean they were getting no help at all as there were soup kitchens and breadlines, but not as much help as they should have gotten. It was hard enough to even wish to land a job, let alone one that pays well enough to get them out of their situation as a new home cost almost 3 times more than the average annual pay for Americans already employed. Many children were suffering from Malnutrition, for the obvious reason of their family not being able to afford food. Some unemployed teens were ashamed of burdening their families for having no job, so many decided to roam around America hitching rides on trains in a desperate search for employment. Many men women and children had to undergo though this though era to survive the Great Depression, many without help form their families or help from the government which sometimes would refuse to help because they couldn't help everybody.

Sources:

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/g/great_depression_1930s/index.html

http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1933.html#cost_of_living

http://academic.mu.edu/meissnerd/depression.htm

Great Depression Recording

Hey, guys so our test is on Friday and many people in our class has asked me to post the lecture recordings online. I hope this help, and please ignore any conversation I have or stupid mistakes I make ^-^


Individual Recording in order:

1920s Pt 1
1920s Pt 2 
Cause of Great Depression Lecture
Cause of Great Depression Lecture: Stocks
Supreme Court Pt 1
Supreme Court Pt 2
Supreme Court Pt 3
Beginning of the Book Lecture
Three R's

I hope this helps! Don't forget that you can also check on wikispace (if they're uploaded already by the groups)

Edmodo have the practice tests, concept, and this very useful document (you'll know it once you see it)

Also, don't forget to read your textbook or at least look over at it! Good luck everyone.