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How to apply for Florida rental assistance. Residents can apply for OUR Florida relief online, at era.ourflorida.com, or by calling 833-493-0594. Catie Wegman is TCPalm's housing and real estate ...
Unemployed Councils activists William Z. Foster, Robert Minor, and Israel Amter at the time of their March 1930 International Unemployment Day arrests in New York City. The Unemployed Councils of the USA (UC) was a mass organization of the Communist Party, USA established in 1930 in an effort to organize and mobilize unemployed workers .
The Unemployment and Farm Relief Act (French: Loi remédiant au chômage et aidant à l’agriculture) was introduced by Prime Minister R.B. Bennett, [2] and enacted in July 1931 by the Parliament of Canada, enabling public works projects to be set up in Canada's national parks during the Great Depression.
The President's Organization for Unemployment Relief (originally known as the President's Emergency Committee for Employment) was a government organization created on August 19, 1931, by United States President Herbert Hoover. Its commission was to help U.S. citizens who lost their jobs due to the Great Depression.
The program was created to provide low-rent homesteads, including a home and small plots of land that would allow people to sustain themselves. Through the program, 34 communities were built. [ 2 ] Unlike subsistence farming , subsistence homesteading is based on a family member or members having part-time, paid employment. [ 3 ]
The Unemployment Insurance Act 1930 (20 & 21 Geo. 5. c. c. 16) re-drafted the terms of benefit, so as to remove the major part of the grievance relating to the disqualification of persons alleged to be "not genuinely seeking work", which led to greater numbers of people acquiring unemployment assistance. [ 11 ]
Three Cheers for the Unemployed: Government and Unemployment before the New Deal (1992) excerpt and text search; Singleton, Jeff. The American Dole: Unemployment Relief and the Welfare State in the Great Depression (2000) Sternsher, Bernard (1964). Rexford Tugwell and the New Deal. Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. OCLC 466310 ...
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