UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES . 3 
PUBLICATION OF INDEX OF EMPLOYMENT 
Sec. 7. The Secretary of Labor shall prepare and publish monthly an Index 
of Employment, which shall indicate the condition of emplovment in the United 
States and in each substantial portion thereof. 
PREPARATION OF INDEX OF EMPLOYMENT 
"Sec. 8. For the preparation of the Index of Employment there shall be made 
available to the Secretary of Labor, upon his request, statistics collected or com- 
piled by any executive department, independent commission, board, bureau, 
office, agency, or other establishment of the Government. The Secretary of 
Labor is further authorized to utilize, to such extent as he deems advisable, 
statistics collected or compiled by any State or political subdivision thereof, or 
by any private, industrial, commercial, banking, labor, or other association or 
enterprise, and to obtain such additional facts and statistics as he deems neces- 
sary for such purposes. 
ACCELERATION OF EMERGENCY CONSTRUCTION 
Smc. 9. For the purpose of preventing unemployment during periods of busi- 
ness depression and of permitting the Government to avail itself of opportunity 
for speedy, efficient, and economical construction during such periods, the Presi- 
dent is requested to direct the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Treasury, 
and the Secretary of Agriculture to accelerate during such periods, to such extent 
as is deemed practicable, the prosecution of all public works within their control. 
ADVANCE PLANNING 
Sec. 10. It is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress to arrange the con- 
struction of public works, so far as practicable, in such manner as will assist in 
the stabilization of industry and employment through the proper timing of such 
construction, and that to further this objeet there shall be advance planning of 
public works to be accomplished (a) in the case of river and harbor and flood- 
control works and projects and publie building projects by means (1) of prelim- 
inary reports, made under the subsequent provisions of this act or existing law, 
as to the desirability of the project; (2) of annual authorizations of projects, 
the total estimates for which are sufficiently in excess of the annual appropria~ 
tions made for the work thereon to result in uncompleted projects being avail- 
able for the expenditure of public works emergency appropriations when made; 
and (3) of advance preparation of detailed construction plans and (b) in the case 
of public roads projects by means (1) of advance approval of projects in accord- 
ance with the provisions of the Federal highway act, and amendments and 
supplements thereof, and of this act, and (2) advance preparation of detailed 
constriction vlans. 
PUBLIC-ROADS PROJECTS 
Sec. 11. (a) In addition to the projects authorized to be approved under the 
Federal highway act, and amendments and supplements thereof, the Secretary 
of Agrieulture is authorized to approve emergency Federal-aid road projects for the 
construction, reconstruction, and maintenance of Federal-aid highways, the share of 
the United States in the cost of which is to be paid primarily out of public works 
emergency appropriations made for the purpose. Such emergency projects may be 
approved in advance of any such appropriation but only to such extent as the Sec- 
retary of Agriculture deems advisable in order that uncompleted projects for the 
expenditure of money so appropriated may be immediately available at the time 
such appropriation is made. If the amount apportioned to the State of the public 
works emergency appropriation made for the purpose is insufficient to meet the 
share of the United States in the cost of all approved emergency projects within the 
State, the balance of the share of the. United States shall be paid out of the amount 
apportioned to the State from anv subsequent appropriations made for Federal-aid 
highways. 
(b) The approval of emergency projects for roads within a State shall be 
deemed a contractural obligation of the Federal Government for the payment of 
its proportional contribution to the cost of the projects only to the extent of the 
amount apportioned to the State and remaining unpaid of the public works 
emergency appropriation made for the purpose and the subsequent approvria- 
tions made for Federsl-aid hichwavs.