Finanzen und Steuern im In- und Ausland

Unemployment in the United States

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Identifikator:: 1823190766

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-220010

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Finanzen und Steuern im In- und Ausland

Place of publication:: Berlin

Publisher:: Hobbing

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: 896 S; graph. Darst.

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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80 UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES Third, I should like to point out that there are to be local joint boards of employers and employees set up in the various localities to advise and help administer this act, and the employers could be on the alert to see that this provision was not violated. Mr. Hickey. I take it that the committee is interested primarily in hearing about the number of personnel and the amount that this will cost. . Mr. Doucras. The act appropriates $4,000,000, to be matched by at least an equal sum, which would make $8,000,000. I doubt whether we could build up a completely effective system on $8,000,000, but it has been the custom under other Federal aid acts for the ‘ocalities to appropriate more than their proportionate quota. Mr. Hickey. Then the $8,000,000 will be distributed all over the country? Mr. Doveras. Yes. Mr. Hickey. In all of the cities, I suppose? Mr. DoucLas. Yes. Mr. Hickey. By the Department of Labor? Mr. DoucLas. Yes. Mr. Montague. How many persons do you think would be re- quired to administer the act? Mr. Douvcras. I do not know. It depends on the States. You take a State such as Oregon, for example, it might be handled out there with four or five, while a State such as Texas would need more. Mr. Montague. I understood one of the witnesses a while ago to say that in New York there would be 2,000 personnel. Mr. DoucLas. I think that must have referred to the private em- ployment agencies. Miss Francis Perkins. In New York we have 11 public employ- ment bureaus. Mr. CELLER. But you have 2,000 employees in the department? Miss Perkins. The total number of employees in the entire de- partment is 2,000, and in the Employment Bureau, which is only one of our bureaus, there are about 100 people. Mr. DoucrLas. We have at the present time, I believe, in this country approximately 200 public employment agencies. My guess would be that to strengthen those 200 adequately staffed would re- quire a considerable expenditure, and that if we had five or six hundred officers properly selected and properly subdivided in each office, that a respectable beginning could be made. Mr. CeLLER. Is not the answer to the question dependent on how far each State wants to go? It can have as many as it wishes; then the Federal appropriation would be matched by what the State expends. Mr. Doucras. Yes. Mr. Hammer. Provided it can meet the appropriation. Miss Perkins. It takes about five people to an office. Mr. Dougras. Now there is one feature of this bill—there are many features of this bill that I like, but there is one feature that I think is especially valuable, which gives to the Federal agency the power of checking up the State agencies. That can be a great weapon for efficiency in preventing corrupt State administrations from mal-

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