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Plan for relief of unemployed in New York’s era
A 1910s proposal urges national and state employment exchanges, public works, industry regularization, and unemployment insurance to abolish breadlines. It calls for emergency relief via citizen committees, open workshops, work tests for lodging houses, and targeted training, plus a fourfold program to steady employment.
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