EXHIBIT B Average unemployment, percent of labor force unemployed, and usual classification of areas of substantial labor surplus in Pennsylvania, 1953–55 1 Designation "S" denotes classification as smaller area of substantial labor surplus. See exhibit A for meaning of the C, D, E, and F designations. "NC" signifies not classified. • Information not available. EXHIBIT D Average weekly number of continued unemployment compensation claims, and claims volumes as a percentage of unemployment compensation covered labor force, in areas of substantial labor surplus in Pennsylvania,1 1953-55 1 Based on March 1955 unemployment compensation covered labor force. EXHIBIT E Average weekly number of unemployment compensation payments in Pennsylvania, by industry, 1953-55 EXHIBIT F Average weekly number of unemployment compensation payments in Pennsyl vania, as a percentage of covered employment, by industry, 1953–55 Number of claimants who exhausted their unemployment-compensation benefits in areas of substantial labor surplus in Pennsylvania, 1953–55 Excludes exhaustions by claimants filing claims against Pennsylvania but residing in other States. * Includes exhaustions through Dec. 27, 1955. EXHIBIT H Percentage of population receiving public assistance in areas of substantial labor surplus in Pennsylvania (“dependency ratio”), 1952–55 Mr. WINGEARD. In order to conserve time, I would now like to read an abbreviated version of this statement. Senator DOUGLAS. Thank you very much. Mr. WINGEARD. Pennsylvania is the third largest State in the Nation in terms of population, labor force, income payments to individuals, value added by manufacture, and value of mineral production. Although the Pennsylvania economy has achieved relative maturity as compared with the United States generally, its position is good and it is clearly capable of further substantial growth and expansion. Approximately 241,000 Pennsylvania workers were totally unemployed in mid-December, 1955. This total constituted 52 percent of all of the workers in Pennsylvania's civilian labor force. The national unemployment rate was 312 percent in mid-November, 1955, and the State rate at that time was 5 percent. While Pennsylvania's unemployment, in keeping with national trends, has decreased substantially in recent months, during the first half of 1955 it had averaged 320,000, or over 7 percent of the labor force, and in 1954, it had been even higher, averaging 340,000 for the year, or 8 percent of the labor force. Moreover, the current level is still 84,000 in excess of the 1953 average, when the unemployment rate was 312 percent. Despite the substantial improvement of the past year, Pennsylvania still faces the serious economic and unemployment problems which have plagued the State for decades, and which have consistently kept Pennsylvania's unemployment rate higher than other States and the Nation for many years. |