Scott Rasmussen's Number of the Day for March 25, 2024
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March 25, 2024: In the midst of dramatic increases in unemployment, business failures, and bank closures, on March 25th, 1894, Jacob Coxey led 100 Ohio men on a march to Washington D.C., with the intent of demanding that the government provide them with jobs working to build public infrastructure. “Coxey’s Army,” as they came to be known, arrived in Washington D.C. Thirty-six days later, on April 30th, having amassed 400 more men along the way. A much larger force of 5,500 unemployed men joined the march there. The leaders of the march were arrested the next day, and support for the march almost immediately dissolved. In 1914, 20 years later, Coxey would lead another march on Washington D.C.[1][2]
While his first march did not accomplish its goal of creating government jobs for the unemployed, it is considered by historians to be the first protest march on the Capital.[1][2]
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