Word: joblessness
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...Received a bill to give strapped states $500,000,000 for jobless relief instead of lending it to them as heretofore...
Under the Roosevelt plan the Department of Labor would recruit city jobless from municipal lodging houses, breadlines and relief agencies, enlisting them in a Civilian Conservation Corps for one year. The War Department would concentrate recruits at Army camps, weed out the physically unfit, equip the rest with rough civilian clothes and give them several weeks' disciplinary training before turning them over in organized units to the Department of Agriculture for transportation to the national forests. For work in the woods members of the C. C. C. would be paid not more than $1 per day, plus food, shelter...
...Department appropriation bill, after providing $20,000,000 to care for 88,000 boys left vagrant by the Depression, at Army camps; sent it to conference. ¶ Passed (53-to-10) a bill by New York's Wagner increasing the R. F. C. jobless relief fund by $300,000,000; sent it to the House...
...week of the hearing Big Business ding-donged one idea into the Senators' ears: BALANCE THE BUDGET. Witness after witness from Wall Street could see no salvation for the country until the Government ruthlessly cut expenses, lived within its income. To this necessity they subordinated foreign debts, tariffs, jobless relief, railroads, public works and the large variety of panaceas put forward by more imaginative but less substantial citizens. Bernard Mannes Baruch had sounded the keynote the opening day: "Put Federal credit beyond peradventure of a doubt. . . . No nation ever dared to incur deficits as large as ours. The suspicion...
...More jobless kept coming until some 5,000 of them, squeezed and sweaty, had the second and seventh floors almost to themselves. Still no one interfered. Official Seattle is inclined to be lenient with its unemployed. For nearly two years they have been organized in a self-helping Unemployed Citizens League of high political potency. Municipally-owned public utilities furnish free light and water to thousands. Lately a mortgage company fixed up a fine home in one of the city's best residential districts. Before a prospective renter could move in, several unemployed families had taken squatters' possession...