A two-part program dealing with the problem of unemployment, produced by MPR reporter Martin Bunzl. The first part is a collage of voices of unemployed workers reacting to their current situation, and some officials. The second is a conversation with Bud James, organizer for the Workers Alliance between 1935 and 1940, and organizer for the Workers' Alliance, which helped set up unemployment councils during the Great Depression. James talks about the status of unemployment benefits during the earlier hard times.