Economic Study of Puerto Rico: Report to the President, Volume 1The Department, 1979 |
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... unemployment , and wages because these labor aspects are of vital concern , and likewise , a separate report is provided for social conditions and human services in consideration of the linkage to economic progress . Each sector study ...
... unemployment , and wages because these labor aspects are of vital concern , and likewise , a separate report is provided for social conditions and human services in consideration of the linkage to economic progress . Each sector study ...
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... unemployment be re- duced ? ( 3 ) Does the economy rely too heavily on the United States for finance and trade ? ( 4 ) Is the distribution of income too unequal ? FINDINGS RELATED TO THE MAJOR ISSUES Major findings related to the four ...
... unemployment be re- duced ? ( 3 ) Does the economy rely too heavily on the United States for finance and trade ? ( 4 ) Is the distribution of income too unequal ? FINDINGS RELATED TO THE MAJOR ISSUES Major findings related to the four ...
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... unemployment persists as a long- term problem in Puerto Rico . Minimum rates of un- employment even in years of good economic condi- tions have fluctuated in the 10- to 12 - percent range . In the years of the recent recession the ...
... unemployment persists as a long- term problem in Puerto Rico . Minimum rates of un- employment even in years of good economic condi- tions have fluctuated in the 10- to 12 - percent range . In the years of the recent recession the ...
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... unemployment inten- sified , a sizable percentage of the population has relied on increased Federal transfer payments to bolster family expenditure . Desirable as a more equitable distribution of in- come might appear to Puerto Ricans ...
... unemployment inten- sified , a sizable percentage of the population has relied on increased Federal transfer payments to bolster family expenditure . Desirable as a more equitable distribution of in- come might appear to Puerto Ricans ...
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... unemployment roughly doubled and it remains high at the present - just over 16 percent in April 1979 - even though substantially faster real product growth has resumed . Unemployment and Employment Patterns The demographic unemployment ...
... unemployment roughly doubled and it remains high at the present - just over 16 percent in April 1979 - even though substantially faster real product growth has resumed . Unemployment and Employment Patterns The demographic unemployment ...
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Page 236 - It is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress, as a measure of national security, to safeguard the health and well-being of the Nation's children and to encourage the domestic consumption of nutritious agricultural commodities and other food...
Page 290 - Federal share" for any State shall be 100 per centum less the State percentage and the State percentage shall be that percentage which bears the same ratio to 50 per centum as the per capita income of such State bears to the per capita income of the continental United States (excluding Alaska), except that (1) the Federal share...
Page 283 - The Surgeon General shall conduct in the Service, and encourage, cooperate with, and render assistance to other appropriate public authorities, scientific institutions, and scientists in the conduct of, and promote the coordination of, research, investigations, experiments, demonstrations, and studies relating to the causes, diagnosis, treatment, control, and prevention of physical and mental diseases and impairments of man, including water purification, sewage treatment, and pollution of lakes and...
Page 262 - Act," states the law's preamble, "to assure that all handicapped children have available to them a free appropriate public education which emphasizes special education and related services designed to meet their unique needs...
Page 327 - It is the declared policy of the Congress that the Government should aid, counsel, assist, and protect insofar as is possible the interests of small business concerns in order to preserve free competitive enterprise...
Page 316 - States and the political subdivisions thereof in which there shall be located a veterans' employment service. The bureau shall also assist in coordinating the public employment offices throughout the country and in increasing their usefulness by developing and prescribing minimum standards of efficiency, assisting them in meeting problems peculiar to their localities, promoting uniformity in their administrative and statistical procedure, furnishing and publishing information as to opportunities...
Page 260 - Commissioner shall carry out a program for making grants for supplementary educational centers and services, to stimulate and assist in the provision of vitally needed educational services not available in sufficient quantity or quality, and to stimulate and. assist in the development and establishment of exemplary elementary and secondary school educational programs to serve as models for regular school programs, and to assist the States in establishing and maintaining programs of testing and guidance...
Page 258 - In recognition of the special educational needs of children of low-income families and the impact that concentrations of low-income families have on the ability of local educational agencies to support adequate educational programs...
Page 291 - State, to furnish (1) medical assistance on behalf of families with dependent children and of aged, blind, or permanently and totally disabled individuals, whose income and resources are insufficient to meet the costs of necessary medical services...
Page 293 - State, to needy dependent children and the parents or relatives with whom they are living to help maintain and strengthen family life and to help such parents or relatives to attain or retain capability for the maximum self-support and personal independence...