Area Redevelopment: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Labor of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session, on S. 2663, a Bill to Establish an Effective Program to Alleviate Conditions of Excessive Unemployment in Certain Economically Depressed AreasU.S. Government Printing Office, 1956 - 1170 pages Pt. 1: Considers Federal employment aid programs to economically depressed urban areas. Feb. 3 hearing was held in Boston, Mass.; Feb. 9 hearing was held in Johnstown, Pa.; Feb. 10 hearing was held in Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; pt. 2: Feb. 24 hearing was held in Benld, Ill.; Feb. 25 hearing was held in Johnston City, Ill.; Feb. 27 hearing was held in Rosiclare, Ill. |
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... Major Areas --- 193 35 Bituminous area by counties ( Pennsylvania ) . 382 Bootstraps of Michigan , article in Nation's Business , September 1950_ Classification as to adequacy of labor supply , major New England labor market areas ...
... Major Areas --- 193 35 Bituminous area by counties ( Pennsylvania ) . 382 Bootstraps of Michigan , article in Nation's Business , September 1950_ Classification as to adequacy of labor supply , major New England labor market areas ...
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... major chronic labor surplus areas .. Problem of employing young people adjudicated delinquent__ Report on recommendations made to the President by the Northeast Pennsylvania Industrial Development Commission , August 10 , 1954- Report ...
... major chronic labor surplus areas .. Problem of employing young people adjudicated delinquent__ Report on recommendations made to the President by the Northeast Pennsylvania Industrial Development Commission , August 10 , 1954- Report ...
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... Major economic difficulties in Maine have centered generally on the textile industry . There are many reasons for this . There is the cutrate cheap labor competition from Japanese imports . There is the textile migration to the South ...
... Major economic difficulties in Maine have centered generally on the textile industry . There are many reasons for this . There is the cutrate cheap labor competition from Japanese imports . There is the textile migration to the South ...
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... major and 19 smaller depressed areas . By November 1954 , the figure for major areas had jumped to 48 , then dropped to 26 by September , and 19 by November . The number of smaller areas has also increased , with the latest tabulation ...
... major and 19 smaller depressed areas . By November 1954 , the figure for major areas had jumped to 48 , then dropped to 26 by September , and 19 by November . The number of smaller areas has also increased , with the latest tabulation ...
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... major source of jobs . In recent years , there has been an increasing amount of State and local interest in attracting new industry and raising the level of economic activity in depressed areas . Purely local efforts , however , cannot ...
... major source of jobs . In recent years , there has been an increasing amount of State and local interest in attracting new industry and raising the level of economic activity in depressed areas . Purely local efforts , however , cannot ...
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