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The imminent expiration of the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation program at a time when unemployment is still high and there are large numbers of long-term unemployed makes enactment of the permanent improvements I have recommended in the existing federal-State unemployment system especially urgent.

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Letter to the President of the Senate and to the Speaker of the House on the Unemployment Compensation System.

03/11/1962

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