Unemployment Insurance: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Seventy-third Congress, Second Session, on H. R. 7659. March 21 to 30, 1934 |
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... measure , a measure of great statesmanship , and one which as it lies before you in Congress today is perhaps the greatest contribution to the future welfare of this country , and I say " future " underscored , for the future welfare of ...
... measure , a measure of great statesmanship , and one which as it lies before you in Congress today is perhaps the greatest contribution to the future welfare of this country , and I say " future " underscored , for the future welfare of ...
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... measure in any way is to be segregated or set apart wholly for unemployment relief purposes ? Secretary PERKINS . I am told that that cannot be done , that the funds that go into the Treasury , go into the Treasury , and that they are ...
... measure in any way is to be segregated or set apart wholly for unemployment relief purposes ? Secretary PERKINS . I am told that that cannot be done , that the funds that go into the Treasury , go into the Treasury , and that they are ...
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... measure the stabilizing influence of what a small regular payment in the short periods of unemployment might have done to prevent this major depression . Now , we can speculate , and if you will recognize it as speculative , I would ...
... measure the stabilizing influence of what a small regular payment in the short periods of unemployment might have done to prevent this major depression . Now , we can speculate , and if you will recognize it as speculative , I would ...
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... measure it . The figures I gave you for Minne- sota were calculated upon the theory that a 4 - percent contribution was made of the amount of all the pay rolls from 1926 to 1932 , and that 40 percent of the wages were paid each week to ...
... measure it . The figures I gave you for Minne- sota were calculated upon the theory that a 4 - percent contribution was made of the amount of all the pay rolls from 1926 to 1932 , and that 40 percent of the wages were paid each week to ...
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... measure is passed , there will be little or no reason why any of the States should not pass some kind of unemployment insurance law , for the State law would not heap any added burdens upon the employers in these States since any ...
... measure is passed , there will be little or no reason why any of the States should not pass some kind of unemployment insurance law , for the State law would not heap any added burdens upon the employers in these States since any ...
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actuarial administration adopted ALTMEYER amount argument believe burden Chairman COCHRAN codes commission committee Congress contributing employees COOPER cost course DENBY depression DOUGLAS economic effect ELIOT employed employer enactment excise tax exempted experience fact Federal Government FLANDERS FOLSOM FREAR GALL going HUTZLER I. M. Rubinow imposed income increase industry insurance fund interest labor legislation legislatures LEWIS manufacturers Massachusetts matter means measure ment minimum months normal Ohio operation paid particular passed pay roll payments percent ployment present principle problem production Professor MERIAM Professor SLICHTER proposed purchasing power question reason recovery REED relief reserve fund Royal Meeker Secretary PERKINS Senator social stabilization statement SwOPE system of unemployment thing tion unem unemployed unemployment benefits unemployment fund unemployment insurance unemployment payments unemployment reserves United wages Wagner-Lewis bill waiting period weeks Wisconsin workers
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Page 349 - They form a portion of that immense mass of legislation which embraces everything within the territory of a State not surrendered to the General Government; all which can be most advantageously exercised by the States themselves.
Page 107 - Every person in the service of another under any contract of hire, express or implied, oral or written, including aliens, and also including minors who are legally permitted to work under the laws of the State who, for the purposes of this act, shall be considered the same and have the same power to contract as adult employees...
Page 4 - If any installment is not paid on or before the date fixed for its payment, the whole amount of the tax unpaid shall be paid upon notice and demand from the collector.
Page 114 - The state treasurer may deposit any portion of the state fund not needed for immediate use, in the manner and subject to all the provisions of law respecting the deposit of other state funds by him. Interest earned by such portion of the state insurance fund deposited by the state treasurer shall be collected by him and placed to the credit of the fund.
Page 4 - If the tax is not paid when due, there shall be added as part of the tax interest at the rate of 1 per centum a month from the time when the tax became due until paid.
Page 110 - The board may also, in its discretion certify to such appellate division of the supreme court, questions of law involved in its decision. Such appeals and the questions so certified shall be heard in a summary manner and shall have precedence over all other civil cases in such court.
Page 110 - Technical rules of evidence or procedure not required. The commission or a commissioner or deputy commissioner in making an investigation or inquiry or conducting a hearing shall not be bound by common law or statutory rules of evidence...
Page 424 - The contention that the federal tax is not uniform, because other states impose inheritance taxes while Florida does not, is without merit. Congress cannot accommodate its legislation to the conflicting or dissimilar laws of the several states, nor control the diverse conditions to be found in the various states, which necessarily work unlike results from the enforcement of the same tax.
Page 138 - Directors who in addition to the powers and authorities by these presents or otherwise expressly conferred upon them may exercise all such powers and do all such acts and things as may...
Page 139 - At all meetings of the board a majority of the directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business and the act of a majority of the directors present at any meeting at which there is a quorum shall be the act of the board of directors, except as may be otherwise specifically provided by' statute or by the certificate of incorporation.