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Fighting Unemployment: II. Unemployment Insurance
Mussey, Henry Raymond | December 17, 1930 issue

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The article throws light on the increasing interest of unemployment insurance in the U.S. It also gives a brief look at the various difficulties in developing such insurance plans. The original British plan, established by a Liberal Government in 1911, rightly combined a national system of labor exchanges with the scheme of unemployment insurance; for insurance without such exchanges would be unworkable and disastrous. The system was compulsory on industries employing about 2,250,000 workers, and required contributions from employers, employees, and the state. The scheme was on a straight insurance basis, and was in no sense a plan of unlimited unemployment relief.

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UNEMPLOYMENT insurance; UNEMPLOYMENT; INDUSTRIAL laws & legislation; LABOR; INDUSTRIAL relations; UNITED States
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