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 (¢} The provision of the Federal highway act in respect of the apportionment of Federal-aid appropriations shall not apply to public works emergency appro- priations, but the Secretary of Agriculture may apportion such appropriations among all the States or in the State in the area or areas designated by Congress in such a way as may be fixed by Congress or shall in his judgment be best cal- culated to prevent unemployment. (d) For the purpose of equalizing among the several States the amount of Federal funds apportioned under the Federal highway act, as amended and sup- plemented, and this act, the Secretary of Agriculture 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 deducted bo 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 time. (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 that 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 oul of the next succeeding appropriation for Federal-aid highways and reapportioned in aceord- ance with subdivision (e) and so on until the total amount so received has been thus deducted and reapportioned. PUBLIC BUILDINGS Sec. 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 Src. 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 vear, and such further sums as are necessary for the administration of this act. [S. 3080, Seventy-first Congress, second session] AN ACT To provide {or the establishment of a national employment system and far cooperation with the States in the promotion of such system, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represeniatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in order to promote the establishment and maintenance of a national system of public emplovment offices there is hereby created in the Department of Labor a bureau to be known as the United States Employment Service, at the head of which shall be a director general. The director general shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall receive a salary at the rate of $10,000 per annum. The Employment Service now existing in the Department of Labor is hereby abolished. . Sec. 2. The Secretary of Labor is authorized, in accordance with the ecivil- service laws, to appoint, and, in accordance with the classification act of 1923, as amended, to fix the compensation of a woman assistant director general who, subject to the director general, shall have general supervision of all matters relating to the obtaining of employment for women, and, in accordance with the civil-service laws, to appoint, and, in accordance with the classification act of 1923, as amended, to fix the compensation of, such other officers, employees, and assistants, and to make such expenditures (including expenditures for per- sonal services and rent at the seat or government and elsewhere. and for law

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