The unemployment rate was of 25% during the great depression, it had important effects in society, some of these consequenses are:
- Increase of shantytown all over United States.
- Americans had to accept handouts to survive.
- People did long breadlines in big cities in order to have something to eat.
- Intensification of violence among Americans to solve their needs.
- Rising of depression and suicide rates because people were losing to much.
- Many men abandoned their families becuase they couldn't look after them.