UNEMPLOYMENT see also Employment

Addresses

Bankruptcy Laws: Representative Gonzalez, 1925 [6FE]

Government's Responsibility to U.S. Industries and Labor: Gus Tyler, 9623-9625 [12AP]

International Brotherhood of Teamsters: Jackie Presser, 9782 [24AP]

National Industrial Policy: John R. Opel, 14763 [31MY]

Plight of the Farm Workers: Cesar Chavez, 5554 [14MR]

Analyses

Vocational Education Consolidation Act (S. 2302), 2511 [9FE]

Articles and editorials

Appalachians, Lost in the Big City, 24153 [10AU]

Are We Better Off?—Gauging Living Standards in 1984, 21087 [25JY]

Baltimore's Boomtowns Still Have a Long Road Ahead, 11072 [3MY]

Blame Liberal Democrats for Rising U.S. Poverty, 15491 [7JN]

Building a Movement—Full Employment—Planning From the Bottom Up, 3964 [29FE]

Chance To Help the Jobless Before They Get That Old, 24719 [10SE]

Congressional Consensus on Aiding Nation's Cities, 1958 [6FE]

Copper Ghosts, 5549, 5560 [14MR]

Do More Than Tinker With Jobless Benefits, 1752 [2FE]

Double Jeopardy, 21350 [26JY]

Enterprise Zones, 11071 [3MY]

FDR Spirit Lives in Jobs Bill, 20393 [29JN]

Golden Antidote to High Interest, 20463 [29JN]

High Price of Saving Pennies, 10781 [2MY]

Idlers, in the Senate, 11471 [8MY]

Illegal Immigrants—U.S. May Gain More Than It Loses, 14545 [30MY]

Job as a Human Right, 32332 [11OC]

Job Bias vs. Cancer Victim Under Fire, 21350 [26JY]

New Poor, 21724 [31JY]

Not All Jobs Are Counted—Rates Exclude Those Who Have Quit Looking, 2638 [9FE]

Phantom Jobless, 25402 [13SE]

Pray, Let Me Work, 6072 [20MR]

Proposed Constitutional Amendment To Guarantee Employment Opportunity, 3703 [28FE]

Reagan a Hazard to Health of Poor, 9052 [11AP]

Reagan Had Hand in County Crisis, 26390 [20SE]

Reagan's Numbers—Sometimes His Economic Statistics Don't Square With the Facts, 1164 [31JA]

Reagan's Safety Net Sags—It's Not a Soft Landing for Minnesota's Working Poor, 24326-24328 [5SE]

Real Jobs Program, 28792 [2OC]

Sink or Swim, 10782 [2MY]

States Expand Enterprise Zones Despite Lack of Federal Incentives, 21825 [1AU]

Steel Workers Make Area Proud, 5551 [14MR]

Stop Stalling the Conservation Corps, 25802 [18SE]

Thud of Poverty, 10781 [2MY]

Training Unskilled Workers, 4554 [5MR]

Unfilled Promises of Supply Side Economics (series), 25170 [12SE]

Victim of Cancer—Then, of Employers, 21350 [26JY]

Washington Report—Welfare to Paid Employment Dilemma, 12357 [15MY]

What Do We Mean by Freedom?, 32333 [11OC]

What's Wrong With the System?, 21724 [31JY]

Woman, 50, Feels Fortunate To Be on Snow Removal Crew, 514 [26JA]

Bills and resolutions

Agriculture: update exemptions from unemployment taxes (see H.R. 5918)

Automation: study of effect on worklplace (see H.R. 6293)

Coast Guard: construction contractors' hiring of local residents in areas of high unemployment (see H.R. 5670)

Compensation: additional (see H.R. 4676)

———certain laid-off workers (see H.R. 5647)

———determination of availability of extended and supplemental benefits (see H.R. 5502; H. Con. Res. 293)

Dept. of Defense: funds for relief of economic dislocations (see S. 2203)

———skill demonstration projects in certain occupations (see S. 2742)

Dislocated Workers Act: enact (see S. 2742)

———training opportunities (see H.R. 6096)

Economically distressed areas: incentives for business relocation (see S. 2914)

Executive departments: procurement contracts in labor surplus areas (see S. 2742)

Federal employees: conditions for reduction in force (see H.R. 6080)

———Fair Reduction-in-Force Practices Act (see S. 2979)

Federal insurance taxes: relief for certain small business (see S. 2988)

Food stamps: improvements (see S. 2607)

Foreign trade: reduce unfair practices and orderly trade (see S. 2380)

Labor surplus areas: determination based on jurisdictions having populations of 25,000 or more (see H.R. 6348)

———procurement targeting (see H.R. 6096)

Layoffs: advance notice by employer and relocation options and assistance (see H.R. 6411, 6412)

Nutrition programs: improvements (see S. 2607)

Plant closings: advance notice to facilitate economic readjustment of communities (see H.R. 5829)

Railroads: coverage of workers under Federal-State insurance system (see H.R. 6068)

Retraining, education, and relocation assistance: 3-year demonstration projects in two States (see H.R. 5748)

Retraining expenses: tax credit (see H.R. 4738)

Skilled labor: stimulate State programs for training and education consistent with regional needs (see S. 2811; H.R. 5956)

States: incentive for job training by reducing interest owed to the Government from advances received for payment of compensation (see H.R. 6345)

Tax rate: effect of 1985 increase on certain small business (see H.R. 6112)

Taxation: compensation (see S. 2337)

———contributions to training accounts (see H.R. 4832)

———credit to employers for hiring long-time jobless (see H.R. 4787)

———treatment of compensation included in gross income by two-earner married couples (see H.R. 5545)

———update exemptions for agricultural labor (see H.R. 5918)

U.S.-Mexican border area: assistance (see H.R. 5544, S. 2588)

Books

``Making America Work Again'': J. Morton Davis (excerpt), 4732 [6MR]

Descriptions

Enterprise Zone Act (S. 2914), 22692 [8AU]

Factsheets

U.S.-Mexican Border Area Economic Assistance (S. 2588), 9873 [25AP]

Letters

Domestic copper industry in dire straits: Arizona Mining Association, 24328 [5SE]

Effects of budget cuts on summer youth employment program: Natonal League of Cities and the U.S. Conference of Mayors, 2389 [8FE]

Effects of unemployment—cold statistics (excerpts): from constituents, 4246 [1MR]

Plant closings and the effects on workers: United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America, 14544 [30MY]

Result of targeting Dept. of Defense contracts to distressed areas: President Reagan (excerpt), 14646 [31MY]

Use of Federal job training funds to offset county welfare costs in Los Angeles, CA, 4841 [7MR]

Lists

Cosponsors of S. 2914, Enterprise Zone Act, 22691 [8AU]

WIN demonstration project States, 7184 [30MR]

Memorials of legislature

California, 25008 [12SE], 25184 [12SE]

Georgia, 5861 [19MR]

Pennsylvania, 8006 [5AP], 8424 [9AP], 14689 [31MY]

Outlines

Omnibus Anti-Poverty Act (H.R. 4920), 5680 [15MR]

Petitions

National issues: California Republican Assembly, 8425 [9AP]

Prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation (S. 430): Concord, NH, Citizen, 15613 [11JN]

Social programs: International Woodworkers of America, 15612 [11JN]

Press releases

Reagan administration job claims a myth: Council on International and Public Affairs, 30245 [4OC]

Remarks in House

AFDC quality control program: fiscal sanctions, 30272 [4OC]

Age discrimination: prevent in workplace (H.R. 5346), 13999 [23MY]

Agricultural labor: unemployment tax (H.R. 5918), 18477 [22JN]

Airlines: economic impact of bankruptcy, 1923 [6FE]

Alaska: food stamp pilot program for rural areas (H.R. 5181), 5870 [19MR]

Automation: study effects on unemployment rate (H.R. 6293), 26640 [24SE]

Automobile industry: implement assistance and job training programs for unemployed, 4618 [6MR]

Bankruptcy: reform laws, 1923 [6FE]

Benefits: option to receive retraining, education, and relocation assistance in lieu of certain compensation benefits (H.R. 3501), 6056 [20MR]

Blind workers: ensure applicable minimum wage (H.R. 991), 11474 [8MY]

Budget: impact of deficit, 24314 [5SE]

Cancer Patients Employment Rights Act: enact (H.R. 5849), 21349 [26JY]

Civil rights: Supreme Court decision making seniority prevalent in layoffs, 16793 [15JN]

Democratic policies: comparison, 24662 [10SE]

Dept. of Defense: targeting nonstrategic procurement contracts to distressed areas, 14642 [31MY]

Displaced workers: tax incentives for retraining, 8795 [11AP]

Domestic content legislation: issues, 19421 [27JN]

East Palo Alto, CA: job and training conference, 27610 [27SE]

Economic conditions: status, 16193 [13JN]

Economic Conversion Act: enact (H.R. 4805), 2368 [8FE]

Economic recovery: status, 5199 [13MR], 20694 [24JY], 22235-22272 [2AU], 24074 [10AU]

Employment opportunity: constitutional amendment to guarantee (H.J. Res. 202), 3703 [28FE]

Enterprise Zone Employment and Development Act: enact, 11071 [3MY]

``Estimates of Poverty Including the Value of Noncash Benefits—1979 to 1982'': issuance of Dept. of Commerce report, 4541 [5MR]

Fair Trade in Steel Act: enact (H.R. 4352), 5238 [14MR]

Family support services program: funding, 27606 [27SE]

Family violence: effects of unemployment, 1374 [1FE]

Fishing industry: proposed Federal assistance, 26398 [20SE]

Hart, Senator: voting record, 4972 [8MR]

Health insurance: coverage of unemployed, 24503 [6SE]

Illegal aliens: impact on unemployment statistics, 17227 [20JN]

Imports: impact on U.S. job market, 4036 [1MR]

Income and Jobs Action Act: enact (H.R. 5814), 16414 [14JN], 20392 [29JN], 32332 [11OC]

Individual Training Account Act: enact (H.R. 4832), 5600 [15MR], 6354 [22MR], 6960 [29MR]

International labor rights: issues, 23092 [6SE]

Issues: policy, 12851 [17MY], 26921 [25SE]

Job funds: target to areas of highest unemployment, 21646 [31JY]

Job Training Partnership Act: programs, 28791 [2OC]

Jobs and Income Act: enact (H.R. 5707), 14030 [23MY]

Los Angeles, CA: use of Federal job training funds to offset county welfare costs, 4841 [7MR]

Misery index: status, 21648 [31JY], 21832 [1AU]

National Training Incentives Act: enact, 6871 [28MR]

New Economic Recovery Act: introduction (H.R. 5506), 9972 [25AP]

Omnibus Anti-Poverty Act: enact (H.R. 4920), 5678-5685 [15MR]

Plant closings: economic effects, 14544 [30MY]

———recent research, 11452 [8MY]

President's Task Force on Food Assistance: report on hunger in America, 2651 [9FE]

Project Heavy program, San Fernando Valley, CA: tribute, 5183 [12MR]

Railroad workers: cover under Federal-State Unemployment insurance system (H.R. 6068), 22301 [2AU]

———right-of-first hire protections, 4669 [6MR]

———Unemployment Compensation Committee report, 8301 [9AP]

Rate: decline, 21648 [31JY]

———issues, 2652 [9FE]

———status, 16414 [14JN], 17011 [19JN]

Reagan, President: accomplishments, 2759 [21FE]

———economic policy, 1164 [31JA], 1191 [1FE], 1893 [6FE], 6780 [27MR], 7306 [2AP], 17227 [20JN], 21648 [31JY], 21832, 22080 [1AU], 30154 [4OC], 30315 [5OC], 30925 [9OC]

———impact of policies on the homeless, 1187, 1205 [1FE]

Recovery and Full Employment Planning Act: enact, 3963 [29FE]

Republican policies: comparison, 24662 [10SE]

Retraining: proposals (H.R. 4801), 2663 [9FE]

Retraining, education, and relocation assistance: funding (H.R. 5748), 14511 [30MY], 24074 [10AU]

Retraining services (H.R. 4738), 1762 [2FE]

Shoe industry: impact of imports, 14407, 14408, 14409 [30MY], 14874, 14875 [5JN]

Social services: budgeting priorities, 7147 [29MR]

Steel industry: economic projections, 12959 [18MY]

———impact of imports, 5226, 5240 [13MR], 22226 [2AU], 25821 [18SE], 26167 [19SE]

Subminimum wage: effects on youth employment, 20408 [29JN]

Summer youth employment program: effects of budget cuts, 2389 [8FE]

———funding, 10501 [1MY]

Targeted Jobs Tax Credit Act: extend (H.R. 5094), 9057 [11AP]

Tax rate: impact of increase on small business (H.R. 6112), 28030 [1OC]

Taxation: contributions to training accounts (H.R. 4832), 5600 [15MR], 6354 [22MR]

Taxation: married couples deduction regarding unemployment compensation (H.R. 5545), 10394 [30AP]

Textile imports: impact, 21430, 21453 [27JY]

Timber industry: unemployment, 25099 [12SE]

Trade adjustment assistance program: funding, 14579 [31MY]

———period of eligibility for retraining allowances (H.R. 4878), 2960 [22FE]

Training program: proposed (H.R. 6345), 28173 [1OC]

Unemployment compensation: correct certain inequities (H.R. 5647), 11938 [10MY]

———emergency (H.R. 4676), 658 [26JA]

Unemployment Insurance and Adjustment Assistance Act: enact (H.R. 3501), 6056 [20MR]

———enact (H.R. 5748), 14511 [30MY], 24074 [10AU]

Unemployment insurance and employment service operations: funds, 21865 [1AU]

Unemployment Reduction and Retraining Act: enact (H.R. 4787), 2380 [8FE]

Women: economic status, 30160 [4OC]

Youth: impact of President Reagan's policies, 16723 [15JN]

———employment opportunities, 16723, 16724 [15JN], 17986 [22JN]

Youth employment program: tribute, 2621 [9FE]

Youth Incentive Employment Act: enact (H.R. 5017), 4847-4849 [7MR]

Remarks in Senate

American Conservation Corps: establish (S. 2061), 25801 [18SE]

Compensation: exempt Sun Oil Co. employees from taxation under certain conditions (S. 2337), 3152 [23FE]

———need to continue, 4608 [6MR]

Community development block grant program: targeting funds (S. 2359), 3658, 3659 [28FE]

Copper: disapprove Presidential action with respect to trade relief (S. Con. Res. 143), 25622 [17SE]

Dept. of Defense: require targeting of contracts to high unemployment areas (S. 2203), 48 [23JA], 4360 [5MR], 17165 [19JN]

———skill demonstration projects in certain occupations (S. 2742), 15533 [8JN]

Dislocated Workers Act: introduction (S. 2742), 15533 [8JN]

Economically distressed areas: incentives for business relocation, 22691 [8AU]

Emergency jobs expenditures: distribution under Public Law 98-8, 11795 [10MY]

Enterprise Zone Act: enact (S. 2914), 22691, 22699-22701, 22825 [8AU], 23315 [9AU]

Enterprise zones: State initiatives, 21825 [1AU]

Food stamps: tax credit for hiring recipients (S. 2431), 5740 [15MR]

Health care: coverage under social security, 8661-8673, 8728 [11AP]

Health insurance: coverage for unemployed, 9119-9121 [12AP]

Industrial development bonds: expansion of use, 7448 [3AP]

Job training: funding, 19478 [28JN]

Oak Park, IL: tribute to employment counseling club, 5262 [13MR]

Reagan, President: impact of economic and social policies, 1710 [2FE]

Recession: unemployment rate, 30654 [5OC]

Skilled labor: stimulate programs for training and education consistent with regional needs (S. 2811), 19646, 19649 [28JN]

Tax rate: impact of increase on small business (H.R. 6112), 32129, 32130 [11OC]

———impact of increase on small business (H.R. 6112), unanimous-consent agreement, 28840 [3OC], 31945 , 32128 [11OC]

U.S.-Mexican border area: economic assistance (S. 2588), 9872 [25AP]

———taxation status, 2951 [22FE]

Unemployment insurance system: prevent increase in State tax rate paid by small businesses (S. 2988), 25017 [12SE]

Vocational education: improve, 2492, 2510 [9FE]

Vocational Education and Community-Based Organizations Act: introduction (S. 2289), 2492 [9FE]

Vocational Education Consolidation Act: introduction (S. 2302), 2510 [9FE]

Welfare: employment incentive program, 29162 [3OC]

Work incentive project: participation, 7183 [30MR]

Work Program Reform Act: introduction (S. 3056), 29162 [3OC]

Workfare: welfare compensation for community work, 514 [26JA]

Youth: employment opportunities, 10912 [3MY], 17069 [19JN]

Youth Incentive Employment Act: introduction (S. 2397), 4903 [8MR]

Reports

Charleston, SC, Naval Shipyard Employee Relief: Committee on the Judiciary (S. 1212) (H. Rept. 98-680), 9537 [12AP]

Disability Benefits: Committee on Finance (S. 476) (S. Rept. 98-466), 12923 [18MY]

Distribution of Public Law 98-8 Emergency Jobs Expenditures: GAO, 11795-11804 [10MY]

Plant Closings and Relocations: Charles Craypo, 11453 [8MY]

Policies Contributing to Poverty Among Families and Children, 22246 [2AU]

Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act Amendment Regarding Federal Unemployment Tax Rate Increase in State Unemployment Compensation Laws: Committee on Ways and Means (H.R. 6112) (H. Rept. 98-1043), 26379 [20SE]

U.S. Trade Deficit Sets a Record, 4036 [1MR]

Vocational-Technical Education Act Amendment: Committee on Rules (S. 2496; H.R. 4164; H. Res. 601) (H. Rept. 98-1131), 29611 [3OC]

Resolutions by organizations

Payment of unemployment premiums: National Advisory Council on Small Business, 5943 [20MR]

Youth opportunity wage program: National Conference of Black Mayors, 10912 [3MY]

Statements

Ending Recessions, Depressions, Unemployment, Inflation, and High Living Costs—Consumercard: Jerrold Martin, 11919 [10MY]

Fair Trade in Steel and Iron Ore Act: Representative Oberstar, 22227 [2AU]

Impact of Imports on Shoe Industry: Wolverine World Wide, Inc., 14409 [30MY]

Progress on Unemployment: Lawrence Kline (1983 excerpt), 22229 [2AU]

Unemployed, Forgotten Man: William G. Sumner, 6508 [26MR]

Unemployment Among the Technically Skilled: Dan Swickline, 3698 [28FE]

Wisconsin Steelworkers Save Our Jobs Committee: Frank Lumpkin, 26393 [20SE]

Youth Opportunity Wage Program: National Conference of Black Mayors, 10912 [3MY]

Studies

Effectiveness of Targeting Dept. of Defense Contracts to Distressed Areas: Congressional Research Service (excerpt), 14646 [31MY]

New Jobs, Business Expansions Mark State Enterprise Zone Efforts: Sabre Foundation, 23316 [9AU]

Summaries

Health Care Benefits for Unemployed Under H.R. 2163, 8729 [11AP]

Income and Jobs Action Act (H.R. 5814), 16414 [14JN]

Jobs and Income Act (H.R. 5707), 14031 [23MY]

Omnibus Anti-Poverty Act (H.R. 4920): health related provisions, 5684 [15MR]

Recovery and Full Employment Planning Act, 3964 [29FE]

Youth Incentive Employment Act (S. 2397), 4907 [8MR]

Surveys

Medical and Income Needs (December 1983-January 1984): Steel Valley Unemployment Center, 4608 [6MR]

Unemployment Levels: Steel Valley Unemployment Center, 8670 [11AP]

Testimonies

Economic Distress: Francesco Cantarella, 1159 [31JA]

Job Creation and Training: Representative Oakar, 14513 [30MY]

Targeted Jobs Tax Credit Act (H.R. 5094): Representative Ford, 9058 [11AP]

Texts of

H.R. 5506, New Economic Recovery Act, 9973 [25AP]

H.R. 6112, impact of the effect of the 1985 increase in Federal unemployment tax rate on small business, 28030 [1OC]

S. 2203, require targeting of defense contracts to high unemployment areas, 48 [23JA]

S. 2289, Vocational Education and Community-Based Organizations Act, 2493 [9FE]

S. 2302, Vocational Education Consolidation Act, 2512-2515 [9FE]

S. 2337, exempting Sun Oil Co. employees from taxation on certain unemployment benefits, 3152 [23FE]

S. 2359, targeting community development block grant program funds, 3658 [28FE]

S. 2397, Youth Incentive Employment Act, 4904-4906 [8MR]

S. 2742, Dislocated Workers Act, 15534 [8JN]

S. 2914, Enterprise Zone Act, 22692-22699 [8AU]

S. 3056, Work Program Reform Act, 29163 [3OC]

S. Con. Res. 143, disapprove Presidential action with respect to trade relief for copper industry, 25622 [17SE]