Nation's Problem: Unemployment
Photograph
Nation's Problem: Unemployment
1961: What a Year!
1961
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 1/8 × 9 7/16 in. (15.5 × 23.9 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0115
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: 12/61 3) NATION'S PROBLEM: UNEMPLOYMENT. Jobless workers lined up \ for help in Detroit (above) and in many other industrial areas. The \ administration moved rapidly to extend unemployment insurance, to help \ distressed areas, and to begin long-range retraining of the chronically \ unemployed. But not until November did the unemployment rate drop \ dramatically below 6.8%. \ Credit: Elliott Erwitt © 1961 MAGNUM Photos
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