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Effects of depression in the United States


In 1932, 34 million people belonged to families with no regular full-time wage earner.
Industrial production fell by nearly 45% between the years 1929 and 1932.
Homebuilding dropped by 80% between the years 1929 and 1932.
In the 1920s, the banking system in the U.S. was about $50 billion, which was about 50% of GDP.
From the years 1929 to 1932, about 5,000 banks went out of business.
By 1933, 11,000 of the US' 25,000 banks had failed.
Between 1929 and 1933, U.S. GDP fell around 30%, the stock market lost almost 90% of its value.
In 1929, the unemployment rate averaged 3%.
In 1933, 25% of all workers and 37% of all nonfarm workers were unemployed.
In Cleveland, Ohio, the unemployment rate was 60%; in Toledo, Ohio, 80%.
One Soviet trading corporation in New York averaged 350 applications a day from Americans seeking jobs in the Soviet Union.
Over one million families lost their farms between 1930 and 1934.
Corporate profits had dropped from $10 billion three years ago to $1billion in 1932.2
Between 1929 and 1932 the income of the average American family was reduced by 40%.
Nine million savings accounts had been wiped out between 1930 and 1933.
273,000 families had been evicted from their homes in 1932.
There were two million homeless people migrating around the country.
One Arkansas man walked 900 miles looking for work.[
Over 60% of Americans were categorized as poor by the federal government in 1933