Unemployment

=Jobless economy=

Unemployment raised from 8 to 15 million people; that's about a third of the non-farmer workers. The gross national product went from $103.8 billion to $55.7 billion. Almost half of the farms in Mississippi went up for auction on FDR's inauguration day. Germany was the only other country to reach such high unemployment percentages. The poor were obviously hit the hardest. In 1932, fifty percent of Harlem was unemployed.