I thought I was being generous with that figure. Perhaps 14%?
it’s more like 25%. in reality.
Depends on the demographic. For instance, young black males are over 50%. That’s right, only one out of 2 have any kind of job. The average is probably upper teens to lower twenties.
My dad said that during the depression successful salesman’s families got to eat and most everyone else nearly starved. His family of eight sometimes had a potato to eat. I don’t mean a potato each, I mean ONE potato! When he was able to attend school his “lunch” was some corn bread with lard on top. We have no idea how good we have it now.
Try more like 22%. If we did not have unemployment insurance, food stamps etc it would be 1932 to the 10th power. People would literally be starving.