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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... months , or ( 2 ) 6 per centum of the labor force for at least three years immediately prior to the date on which application for assistance is made under this Act , shall be designated as " de- pressed areas " . ( b ) ( 1 ) In making ...
... months , or ( 2 ) 6 per centum of the labor force for at least three years immediately prior to the date on which application for assistance is made under this Act , shall be designated as " de- pressed areas " . ( b ) ( 1 ) In making ...
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... months . In general , however , overall economic conditions in this county have shown substantial improvement during the past year . Savings deposits continue at or near an all - time high ; activity in commercial banking increased ...
... months . In general , however , overall economic conditions in this county have shown substantial improvement during the past year . Savings deposits continue at or near an all - time high ; activity in commercial banking increased ...
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... months of study , comparison , investigation and consultation that followed it . The conference itself was frankly a pioneering venture , perhaps the first of its kind ever attempted by a region such as Washington County , so that its ...
... months of study , comparison , investigation and consultation that followed it . The conference itself was frankly a pioneering venture , perhaps the first of its kind ever attempted by a region such as Washington County , so that its ...
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... months , it is still too high for complacency . Three of the ten smaller areas - Clarksburg , Morgantown and Parkersburg - have just been dropped from the labor surplus classi- fication , according to figures from the Labor Department ...
... months , it is still too high for complacency . Three of the ten smaller areas - Clarksburg , Morgantown and Parkersburg - have just been dropped from the labor surplus classi- fication , according to figures from the Labor Department ...
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... month periods . 2. Unemployment is approximately 9.0 to 11.9 percent of the total labor force . 3. Net nonagricultural labor requirements for 2 and 4 months hence indicate declining employment levels or no significant labor requirements ...
... month periods . 2. Unemployment is approximately 9.0 to 11.9 percent of the total labor force . 3. Net nonagricultural labor requirements for 2 and 4 months hence indicate declining employment levels or no significant labor requirements ...
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administration agencies Altoona anthracite areas of substantial assistance bill BROGGI building Chairman Cheboygan chronic unemployment coal committee Congress Congressman construction contracts cost decline defense Department of Labor depressed areas distressed areas district economic efforts employed Employment Security England factors Federal Government financing funds going increase industrial development interest Johnstown labor force labor market areas labor surplus areas Lawrence legislation LISTER HILL loans located manufacturing MARGARET CHASE SMITH Mayor ment mill million mining Pennsylvania percent plants ployment population present problem procurement production proposed prosperity public facilities railroad represent Scranton Senator DOUGLAS Senator KENNEDY Senator NEELY Senator PURTELL Small Business Administration southern Illinois statement subcommittee substantial labor surplus surplus food taconite textile Thank tion unem unemployed unemployment compensation United United States Senate Washington County West Virginia Wilkes-Barre WINGEARD Woonsocket workers
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Page 72 - Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!
Page 4 - Such notes or other obligations shall bear interest at a rate determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, taking into consideration the current average market yield on outstanding marketable obligations of the United States of comparable maturities during the month preceding the issuance of the notes or other obligations.
Page 5 - All redemptions, purchases, and sales by the Secretary of the Treasury of such notes or other obligations shall be treated as public debt transactions of the United States.
Page 772 - The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do. for themselves, in their separate and individual capacities.
Page 4 - The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to purchase any notes and other obligations to be issued hereunder and for such purpose he is authorized to use as a public debt transaction the proceeds from the sale of any securities issued, under the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended, and the purposes for which securities may be issued under such Act, as amended, are extended to include any purchases of such notes and obligations.
Page 221 - This section of the paper examines the redistributional effects of the money payments' categories of public assistance (PA) programs — old-age assistance, aid to dependent children, aid to the blind, aid to the permanently and totally disabled, and general assistance.
Page 435 - Whenever the number of firms on a bidders' list is excessive, there will be included a representative number of firms from labor surplus areas. (4) In the event of...
Page 60 - Employment Act of 1946." DECLARATION OF POLICY SEC. 2. The Congress hereby declares that it is the continuing policy and responsibility of the Federal Government to use all practicable means consistent with its needs and obligations and other essential considerations of national policy, with the assistance and cooperation of industry, agriculture, labor, and State and local governments...
Page 201 - COVERAGE OF THE WAGE AND HOUR PROVISIONS OF THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT OF 1938, AS AMENDED (Wash., DC, GPO, 1950) ; WAGE AND HOUR MANUAL (BNA).
Page 414 - No such assistance shall be extended hereunder unless the financial assistance applied for is not otherwise available from private lenders or other Federal agencies on reasonable terms.