Ezekiel memo, May 9, 1933

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Citation

Unknown. 1933. “Ezekiel memo, May 9, 1933.” Special Collections, USDA National Agricultural Library. Accessed April 16, 2024, https://www.nal.usda.gov/exhibits/speccoll/items/show/1205.

Title

Ezekiel memo, May 9, 1933

Description

Draft of a memorandum to Secretary Henry A. Wallace from his Economic Advisor, Mordecai Ezekiel, May 9, 1933. Ezekiel presents an estimate of employed and unemployed people in the industrial sector of the economy, including manufacturing, mining, transportation, trade and distribution, and services. He concludes that because of the number of unemployed (roughly 12 million out of 40 million previously working in the sector), "unemployment relief, to be really effective, must start with a large scale and vigorous program of construction and other public works."

Source

Series I.1, Documentary Files, 1914-1939, Box 1.1/15, file "IX B1a, Secretary Wallace, Henry A., correspondence. 1932-May 1933." USDA History Collection, Special Collections, National Agricultural Library.

Date

1933-05-09

Collection

Series I. Documentary Files

Appears in Exhibits

USDA History Collection