Photos show what America was like during the Great Depression - Insider - INSIDER

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• The coronavirus pandemic has devastated the US economy, and unemployment levels have spiked to the highest levels since the Great Depression.
• The April jobs report showed the unemployment rate spiked to 14.7%. Over the last 7 weeks, more than 33 million people have filed jobless claims.
• Americans haven't felt this level of economic tragedy in nearly a century. These photos reveal what life looked like during the worst economic crisis in US history.
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During the Great Depression, the most tragic economic collapse in US history, more than 15 million Americans were left jobless and desperate for an income.

By 1932, nearly one in four Americans were out of a job, and by 1933, unemployment levels reached an estimated 25%.

Though today's unemployment rate has yet to spike that high, the coronavirus pandemic has left the US economy in its most vulnerable state in almost a century.

The jobs report the US Bureau of Labor Statistics released on Friday found that the unemployment rate spiked to 14.7% in April. Over the past seven weeks, more than 33 million Americans have filed jobless claims.

These photos reveal how desolate the country looked during the Great Depression, when food and job lines stretched for blocks.

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