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On the recordJuly 28, 1930
The inclusion of a determination of the amount of unemployment in the Census taken April 1st gives us for the first time an accurate base on which to formulate plans and a knowledge of the whole problem which we have never hitherto possessed.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Statement on the Advisory Committee on Unemployment Statistics.

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