What area does your GD1 statistic cover? Is that the US? The industrialized world? Europe? In any case, the comparison of one city with a (presumably) larger area does not say very much. And, that one city has been in trouble for a while. (*)
Yes, I think you do need say more.
One non-systematic statistic that I pulled off the web:
"In 1933 Utah's unemployment rate was 35.8 percent, the fourth highest in the nation, and for the decade as a whole it averaged 26 percent."
And that's a whole state. Why don't you compare the worst hit city during GD1 to Detroit? I looked briefly for that bit of info but could not locate it quickly.
(*) See also:
Thomas J. Sugrue - The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
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What area does your GD1 statistic cover? Is that the US? The industrialized world? Europe? In any case, the comparison of one city with a (presumably) larger area does not say very much. And, that one city has been in trouble for a while. (*)
Yes, I think you do need say more.
One non-systematic statistic that I pulled off the web:
"In 1933 Utah's unemployment rate was 35.8 percent, the fourth highest in the nation, and for the decade as a whole it averaged 26 percent."
-- utah.gov
And that's a whole state. Why don't you compare the worst hit city during GD1 to Detroit? I looked briefly for that bit of info but could not locate it quickly.
(*) See also:
Thomas J. Sugrue - The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
David Halberstam - The Reckoning
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