Word: joblessness
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...Passed a $110,000,000 jobless relief bill; sent it to the Senate...
...Passed the House jobless bill, after upping its total to $118,000,000; sent it to conference...
...have before me a recent issue of a New-York newspaper. Its first three pages are largely devoted to signals of distress. More than a dozen headlines call attention to "business depression." "jobless," "the homeless...
...used on road building, waterways, flood control, etc., promised that the balance would be forthcoming in the routine supply measures. ¶ In New York, John Davison Rockefeller & son gave Chairman Seward Prosser's committee $1,000,000, providing 200,000 days of work for the jobless. With Edward Stephen Harkness's gift of $500,000, the committee's total passed $4,000,000. This sum was what made it possible for little knots of men to be painting Central Park benches, digging sewers in The Bronx, performing clerical work in city hospitals, pitching manure on Park Avenue...
...jobless in Philadelphia, Banker Horatio Gates Lloyd's committee announced it would supervise a free lodge, and ordered that every family in need should be cared...