People want decent homes to live in; they want to locate them where they can engage in productive work; and they want some safeguard against misfortunes which cannot be wholly eliminated in this man-made world of ours.
Letter from the President's Committee on Economic Security Transmitted to Congress with the Foregoing Message.
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