It is probably true, maybe even more at this moment in time when the country is very unstable. Yet at the same time one can say there is virtually NO unemployment at all. But, they hustle, they sell things on the street, carry people packages, do this, do that, scraping to make a tiny tiny bit of money to eat a meal a day, or one every two days. And they are typically weak, sickly, living on the edge, not prepared if any emergency arises. But, they work.
Farmers use farming techniques which defy all the best wisdom of the care of the land.
Haiti has almost no natural resources. There used to be deposits of bauxite which were commercially mined, but that all came to an end some 40 years ago. There is little agricultural export, though there still are some very fertile lands left. Haiti might be self-supporting in rice, but cheap rice imports, especially from the United States, make it difficult to make a profit even in this needed crop. From time to time I will interupt the flow of information and analyses with stories from my own experiences.