Economic Statistics: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Economic Statistics Before the Subcommittee of ..., 83-2 ..., July 12 and 13, 19541954 - 363 pages |
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Page 169 - employed" even though they work less than full time. In other words, employment 'Employment and Unemployment, Report of the Sub-committee on Unemployment of the Joint Committee on the Economic Report, Congress of the United States, (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1950), p.
Page 77 - ... the index of prices paid by farmers including interest, taxes, and wage rates), farmers' average purchasing power per unit of farm commodities is as high as, or higher than, it was in 1910-1914.
Page 149 - States and such levels needed to carry out the policy declared in section 2; (2) current and foreseeable trends in the levels of employment, production, and purchasing power; (3) a review of the economic program of the Federal Government and a review of economic conditions affecting employment hi the United States or any considerable portion thereof during the preceding year and of their effect upon employment, production, and purchasing power...
Page 149 - Report") setting forth (1) the levels of employment, production, and purchasing power obtaining in the United States and such levels needed to carry out the policy declared in section 2; (2) current and foreseeable trends in the levels of employment, production, and purchasing power...
Page 132 - It is the most complex and difficult of all the long-range domestic problems we have to face. It involves a study of price levels and wage levels and their relation to each other; a study of methods of preventing monopoly control in industry and labor from distorting prices and wages; a study of spending for consumption and for capital investment; a study of individual and corporate savings; and a study of many other economic forces bearing on a stable economy.
Page 130 - Emerson P. Schmidt, director, economic research department, Chamber of Commerce of the United States, Washington, DC Mrs. Frida F. Selbert, secretary, National Machine Tool Builders' Association, Cleveland, Ohio.