Unemployment

By Jillian Devine
      Towards the end of the Empire, large property owners would use slaves to farm their land, putting smaller farms out of business. Slave- owners could sell their crops for lower prices, providing affordable food for the poor. Farmers who had to pay the people who worked at their farms could not produce crops as cheaply as other farmers who owned slaves. There for, he could not sell the crops for low prices. And since most of Rome was poor, nobody would buy from them, so the farmers and the workmen went out of business. Many unemployed people walked, or even lived, on the streets of Rome. The government tried their "best" to find the unemployed jobs, but unfortunately there was not enough jobs left in the city. Unemployment left many Roman Citizens homeless, because they could not pay their rent, and half starved. The emperor had grain imported to feed 100,000 unemployed people in Rome alone, not even to the rest of the Empire, which was probably suffering as well. This evidence proves that the unemployed people left the Roman Empire to nothing but dust.
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