Long-term Economic Growth: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Economic Growth of the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-third Congress, Second Session ... |
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Page 26 - EMPLOYMENT ACT OF 1946, AS AMENDED, WITH RELATED LAWS (60 Stat. 23) [PUBLIC LAW 304— 79TH CONGRESS] AN ACT To declare a national policy on employment, production, and purchasing power, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SHORT TITLE SECTION 1 . This Act may be cited as the "Employment Act of 1946".