1943: Unemployment Insurance

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In a year when the entire economy is geared to wartime production, unemployment becomes a comparatively negligible factor. On Dec. 5, 1942, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9,279 providing for the mobilization and utilization of manpower as well as the transference of the Selective... ...