Unemployment in the United States

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Identifikator:: 1828236179

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-226169

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Unemployment in the United States

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: United States, Government Printing Office

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: II, 193 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE UNITED STATES 11 plemented, and this act, the Secretary of Agricuture shall deduct any payment made to a State out of a public works emergency appropriation from the amount apportioned to the State out of any subsequent appropriation for Federal-aid highways. (e) The Secretary of Agriculture, after making the deductions authorized by this section, shall within sixty days thereafter reapportion the amount so de- ducted to all the States in the same manner and on the same basis, and certify to the Secretary of the Treasury and the State highway departments in the same way as if it were being apportioned under the Federal highway act for the first ime. (f) In the event that the payment received by a State under the provisions of a public works emergency appropriation for Federal-aid highways exceeds the amount apportioned to the State out of the next succeeding appropriation for Federal-aid highways, the whole amount apportioned to that State shall be reapportioned to all the States in the manner provided in subdivision (e), and the difference between the payments so received and the amount so reapportioned shall be deducted from the amount apportioned to the State out of the next succeeding appropriation for Federal-aid highways and reapportioned in accord- ance with subdivision (e) and so on until the total amount so received has been thus deducted and reapportioned. PUBLIC BUILDINGS Src. 12. The provisions of the public buildings act, approved May 25, 1926, shall apply to public buildings authorized under this act, except that the method of allocation prescribed therein shall not apply; but the sums appropriated for public buildings under this act shall be apportioned as Congress may provide or, if there be no such provisions, by the Secretary of the Treasury in such way as best to carry out the intent of this act and prevent unemployment in the United States or the area prescribed by Congress. APPROPRIATIONS AUTHORIZED Sec. 13. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary for expenditure on public works to prevent unemployment during any such period of business depression, not in excess of $150,000,000 in any one fiscal year, and such further sums as are necessary for the administration of this act. [H. R. 11414, Seventy-first Congress, second session] A BILL To provide for the advance planning and regulated construction of certain public works, for the stabilization of industry, and for the prevention of unemployment during periods of business depression Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this act may be cited as the ‘Employment stabilization act of 1930.” DEFINITIONS Sec. 2. When used in this act— (a) The term ‘“‘board” means the Federal Employment Stabilization Board established by section 3 of this act; (b) The term ‘‘ United States,” when used in a geographical sense, includes the several States and Territories and the District of Columbia; (¢) The term “public works emergency appropriation’ means an appropriation made in pursuance of supplemental estimates transmitted to the Congress under the provisions of this act: FEDERAL EMPLOYMENT STABILIZATION BOARD ~ Sec. 3. (a) There is hereby established a board to be known as the Federal Employment Stablization Board, and to be composed of the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of "Agriculture, and the Secretary of Labor. It shall be the duty of the board to advise the President from time to time of the trend of employment and business activity and of the existence or approach of periods of business depression and unemployment in the United States or in any substantial portion thereof. (b) The board is authorized to appoint, in accordance with the civil service laws, a director and such experts, and clerical and other assistants, and to make

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