FALLACY OF UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES.
“ During the next few weeks the problefn olf unemployment will he n good deni in the public eye,” writes the Labour correspondent of the “ Morning t'ost.” ‘‘ Every week, as the figures 1 am-published, people asy: ‘ A million and a-ftuarter out of'; work,’ ‘ that ' great ffiass of unemployed,’ and so forth, and .they generally have at the back of their minds the idea that there is'a standing army df over 1,000,000 always out of work. The..persqifnel of the unemployed changes every week more -tjian is generally understood. Last year over' 4,000,000 people received unemployment benefit during tHp 1 year. That means that one-third of the insured population were out • f wo¥k for varying periods, some a week, some two weeks, and some longer." All df them, at some time or other, were counted in the weekly fig ure -
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 June 1929, Page 3
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141FALLACY OF UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES. Hokitika Guardian, 21 June 1929, Page 3
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