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.
One of the great advances in economic legislation made during the 1930's was to establish the Federal-State system of employment security.
Coverage should also be extended to Federal Government civilian employees.
As is the case at present with respect to coverage, the Federal law should not prevent the States from exceeding the minimum standards if th...
While many improvements have been made in the State laws since the program began, the system is far from adequate today.
Our essential economic problem is to put to sound, productive use our increasing technical knowledge and our growing labor force.
I wish to cooperate with your Subcommittee in every reasonable way, and for that reason I have asked the bipartisan Loyalty Review Board to ...
It is now time for us also to look ahead and assure ourselves that our own policies are those which will serve best to reinforce our economi...