Unemployment insurance oral history project, 1981.

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Unemployment insurance oral history project, 1981.

Transcripts of interviews with twenty-eight individuals involved with unemployment insurance programs at the state and federal levels from the 1930s to the 1980s. All interviews were conducted by Evangeline W. Cooper or Shirley Riordan for the United States Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration under the auspices of an Arthur J. Altmeyer Fellowship. Interviewees discuss their roles with respect to the unemployment insurance program, historical objectives for the program, significant features, major changes since the program's inception, past and present problems, areas of greatest personal satisfaction and frustration, recommendations for changes in the program, and future outlook. Also included in the collection are photographs of some of the participants.

0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes) and.17 photographs.

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