Series 2. Subject files, 1920-1944.

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Series 2. Subject files, 1920-1944.

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The subject files consist of pamphlets, minutes, surveys, budgets, handbooks, manuals, articles, bibliographies, releases, speeches, legislative bills, notes, announcements, and conference proceedings. Division one of the subject files includes materials on public assistance programs for New York City and New York State; on unemployment relief in Oregon, Alabama and Wisconsin; on experience rating; on seasonal unemployment; on unemployment insurance; on social security; on the effect of unemployment on children and young people; on urban planning; on employment stabilization; on health surveys; Works Progress Administration statistics on family composition in selected areas of the U.S.; Social Security Act; projects of the Works Progress Administration; and national health insurance. The United States agencies documented include United States Dept. of Labor, Children's Bureau; National Youth Administration; United States Federal Emergency Relief Administration; United States Federal Security Agency, Social Security Board; United States Social Security Board; and United States Works Progress Administration. Materials in the alphabetically arranged division two include items relating to health insurance, compulsory health insurance, state health insurance plans, labor-management negotiated health plans, and hospital medical care plans generated by the American Association for Social Security, New York State, the federal government and the medical profession; also materials on pensions, including old age pension plans, contributory industrial plans, trade union pension plans, public employee retirement systems, the Railroad Retirement Act, and Social Security. Unemployment materials include documents on technological change, rural rehabilitation, shorter hours of work, relief, unemployment insurance, the unemployment census (1938-1942), duration of benefits, solutions for unemployment, public assistance, the Railroad Unemployment Act, and statistical studies. Miscellaneous subjects covered include files on the blind, black workers, domestic labor, federal aid to states, merit rating, migrant workers, mothers' pensions, old age assistance, veterans' benefits, women workers and working conditions. Geographic divisions include New York City, New York State, other states, national organizations and foreign countries. Subjects include health insurance, old age pensions, unemployment and other workers' benefits.

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