AMERICAN ITEMS
« i U.s. UNEMPLOYED
[United Press Association—By Electric ; Telegraph.—Copyright.] (Received this aav at 10.30 a.m.) s ! WASHINGTON, Aug, 24. The nation’s unemployed numbered 2,508,161. When the census wap taken in April, the Census Bureau announced that was two per cent of the country’s total population and 5.2 of the estimated number of workers. Five out of . every hundred persons who wanted work were jobless.
. The figures include only those without jobs who are able to work and were seeking employment at the time the census was taken. They do not include several other classes such as those with .jobs who are laid off without pay.:
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 August 1930, Page 5
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