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Read The Passage then answer the following Questions
Unemployment was the overriding fact of life when Franklin D. Roosevelt became
president of the United States on March 4, 1933. An anomaly of the time was that the
government did not systematically collect statistics of joblessness; actually it did not
start doing so until 1940. The Bureau of Labor Statistics later estimated that
12,830,000 persons were out of work in 1933, about one-fourth of a civilian labor
force of more than 51 million.
Roosevelt signed the Federal Emergency Relief Act on May 12, 1933. The president
selected Harry L. Hopkins, who headed the New York relief program, to run FERA.
A gifted administrator, Hopkins quickly put the program into high gear. He gathered a
small staff in Washington and brought the state relief organizations into the FERA
system. While the agency tried to provide all the necessities, food came first. City
dwellers usually got an allowance for fuel, and rent for one month was provided in
case of eviction.
This passage is primarily about
A. unemployment in the 1930s.
B. the effect of unemployment on United States families.
C. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency.
D. President Roosevelt’s FERA program
What is A) Unemployment in the 1930s