08/17/1949
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"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 wasted."
"First, I recommend that coverage be extended to about 6 million workers not now covered."
"One of the great advances in economic legislation made during the 1930's was to establish the Federal-State system of employment security."