I'm with Michael Darby on This One...

Those working for the government on relief projects during the Great Depression certainly didn't act as though they were unemployed--it was, in fact, rather difficult to pull them into higher-paid private employment.

This is important because whether those employed by relief agencies and projects during the New Deal are best thought of as "employed" or "unemployed" does a lot to drive views of Roosevelt's New Deal as successful or unsuccessful.

Mike Kimel at Angry Bear:

Unemployment...