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Harry Truman: Adequate unemployment insurance is an indispensable form of prosperity insurance.

On the recordMay 27, 1945
Adequate unemployment insurance is an indispensable form of prosperity insurance.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Special Message to the Congress on Unemployment Compensation.

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