...There we find a policy declaration that specifies Federal responsibility for creating and maintaining "conditions under which there will be afforded useful...self-employment for those able, willing, and seeking to work." Unemployment is not specifically mentioned. The phrase "able, willing, and seeking to work" is to be...

...Unemployment 1 THE Employment Act of 1946 declares that it is the policy of the Federal Government to foster "conditions under which there will be afforded useful...self-employment, for those able, willing, and seeking to work." Under the best of conditions, however, there will always be some unemployment arising from delays involved...

...them." 16 In the United States, the Employment Act of 1946 declares that it is Federal policy to create conditions "under which there will be afforded useful...self-employment, for those able, willing, and seeking to work . . ." In fact, during the 12 years, 1946-57, unemployment in the United States has ranged from 2.5...

...Unemployment l THE Employment Act of 1946 declares that it is the policy of the Federal Government to foster "conditions under which there will be afforded useful...self-employment, for those able, willing, and seeking to work." Under the best of conditions, however, there will always be some unemployment arising from delays involved...

...is to make clear that the primary test by which our economy is to be judged is whether it provides "useful employment opportunities, including self-employment, for those able, willing, and seeking to work." It is the trade union movement which in many cases has taken the leadership in focusing attention on...

...employment, production, and purchasing power" and to create and maintain an economic environment in which "there will be afforded useful employment opportunities,...self-employment, for those able, willing, and seeking to work." The broad goals of the Act imply, first, that the vast productive capacity of the Nation should be...

...the continuing policy and responsibility of the Federal Government to use all practical means * * * to coordinate and utilize all its plans, functions,...employment opportunities, including self-employment, for tliose able, willing, and seeking to work, and to promote maximum employment, production, and purchasing....

...utilization of all of its plans, functions, and resources for the purpose of creating and maintaining conditions under which there will be afforded useful...employment opportunities, including self-employment. Provision is made for an annual economic report by the President, and for creation of cooperating bodies...

...TITLE SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the "Employment Act of 1946". DECLARATION OF POLICY SEC. 2. The Congress hereby declares that it is the continuing...including self-employment, for those able, willing, ami seeking to work, and to promote maximum employment, production, and purchasing power. ECONOMIC...

...avoiding any reference to job guarantees (much less any possibility of coercion) and defining the goal as "useful employment opportunities, including self-employment, for those able, willing, and seeking to work." This of course left the whole question of the length of the work week open. We shall undoubtedly hear...