#dole

Town scene in Dole, Brittany region of France

This is Jean Schwartz, a New York dress finisher who has been out of a job for 18 weeks, December 27, 1937. She appeared at the Central Post Office to fill out her application for unemployment insurance, something nearly a million in the state were expected to do before the end of 1938. A staff of 4,000 was hired to handle the applications.

The secretly evil history of the Dole Company - and how it ties into the lie that "vegetables exist"