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DO<..; u M1:.1"tl.l ROOM . lfo. 4 -- 1586 T H E WO R K S P R O G R A M ---------- Works Progre ss Admi nistra ti on For Immediate Rel ea s e , Friday , September 17, 1937. Sli ght Decline Shown in WPA Employment f or TTeek Ending Sept embe r 4. Administrato r Harry L. Hopkins today announced that 1,468,899 workers wer e employe d on projects of the Works Progr e ss Admi nist r ?,tion during the week ending Sept ember 4. This wa s a decline of 1 3 ,808 from the previous week , when employment t ntaled 1,482,707. Slight increRscs TTe r e r egistered during this pe riod in 16 St ate s, Ner, York City end the Territory of Hanaii. Durinc the last t hr ee months, the rolls showed an ave r ~ge weekly decline of ne~rly 38,000. (Employment by St;:,,t e s for t he r;reek s ending August 28 a nd Sep t embe r 4 are sho,m in the ntt a ched t 2.ble.) 0 Digitized by Original from NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY 1208,6 EEPLOY1lftEN T ON WPA PROJECT0, BY STATE Weeks Ending Soptnmbor hand August 28, 1937 (Partly :Er;timcttc d.....::,_Sub.d.2.?t t~ovisio& :::.;=:.:=::::=::;;====-==-::==== Stat0 ., Num~o~. of Pcrscns ~mployod 1foek ""na:i.ng Weck Ending Septembe r 4 August 28 1,4s2,707 1,1+68 ,899 1,466,631 ·1 ,l+Go ,Li.52 Alabama Arizona Arkansas California Colorado 18,232 18,h98 6,342 6,387 19 , 91~ 15,251 15, 499 Conne cticut Dolaware District of Colu..~bia Florida Georgia 12,908 J-3 , 31:3 '1, 666 5.590 23,h66 22,207 GRAm) TOTAL CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES 19~355 71,778 1,680 5,590 22,812 21,686 3,901 105,939 Ida.ho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Lµ,90 8 16,126 24,039 36,173 E:entucky Louisiana Ma.inc Maryland Massachusetts 21,455 2~179 8,802 60,896 ✓ 4.,J, 1()6 31, 1+03 Michigan Minne sota Mi ssissippi Missouri Montana 16,064 49 ,'2!)7 10,325 16,470 1,324 4,539 Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey Now Mexico Now York -City lew York (Exel. N.Y.C.) No rth Ca rolina North Dakot a Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Fenn sy 1vani a Rhode Isla nd South Carolina Utah Vermont Virll'inia 0 Wo.shington West Virginia Wisconsin '«yorr.ing Alaska Hawaii Digitized by NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY - 13,808 13,821 266 45 587 l,l.+07 248 73,185 i-1-35 14 + 67h 521 123 1,871 353 43 130 4,024 107,810 42, 261 16,083 24,169 + 345 464 36,518 21,919 2,187 9,064 60,748 43,763 31, l+J.7 15~935 49,886 9, 310 16,685 1~051 4~509 55 ,734 8 262 148 + 567 14 + 129 + 589 1,015 215 + 273 + 56,0L2 6,467 138,901 6,1+55 + + 138,007 + 56, bf:8 19, 082 19 ,132 8,658 82 , 605 + 39,093 37,57 5 9,824 152, 582 + 9 , 630 150,017 8,933 16,489 .- 50 366 1,518 194 2,565 36 148 16, 637 + 19,183 52,100 6,257 894 1,175 8 ,9€$ 9,016 30 308 12 384 57,053 e,292 83 , 860 9,334 18,685 47,866 6,353 1,889 South Dakota Tennessee Texas Increa::rn or Decrease(-) + 318 498 4,234 96 1, 889 94 16,557 + 20,085 27,450 + 34,456 1,740 34,917 1,736 + 4 13 2,255 13 2,242 + 13 16,651 19 ,8!-1-5 27,476 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY 240 26 461
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