The President's News Conference
03/20/1946
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The first major deficiency in the present Federal-State system of unemployment insurance is that it excludes large numbers of workers.
Consequently, we must have a strong and steadily improving system of unemployment insurance.
This emphasizes the importance of expanding our economy so that new jobs will be created to use skills and energies that are now being waste...
First, I recommend that coverage be extended to about 6 million workers not now covered.