during the depression what percent of american workers were unemployed
- ï¨ Effects of the Great Depressionâ¦ ï¤ rapid declines in the production/sale of goods ï¤ a sudden, severe rise in unemployment; In 1933, at the worst point in the depression, more than 15 million Americansâ one-quarter of the nationâs workforceâ were unemployed.