The Economic Report of the President: Hearings Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United StatesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1964 |
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Page 156 - President, the Economic Report of the President and the Annual Report of the Council of Economic Advisers already go a long way toward specifying an economic and financial program.
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Page 93 - ... been identified by Federal agencies and emphasized in appraisals of the adequacy of existing economic and social statistics by the Joint Economic Committee of the Congress, the Subcommittee on Census and Government Statistics of the House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, the President's Committee To Appraise Employment and Unemployment Statistics and other groups representing business, labor, and research organizations.
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Page 3 - The subcommittee recommends that industry, and management for its part, must be prepared to accept the human costs of displacement and retraining as charges against the savings from the introduction of automation.
Page 27 - Poverty is costly not only to the poor but to the whole society. Its ugly by-products include ignorance, disease, delinquency, crime, irresponsibility, immorality, indifference.
Page 29 - It is desirable that labor and management should bargain explicitly about the distribution of the income of particular firms or industries. It is, however, undesirable that they should bargain implicitly about the general price level.