Jobs and Prices in Boston: Hearing Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Ninety-fourth Congress, Second Session, February 16, 1976

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977 - 147 Seiten

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Seite 52 - Department, the Council of Economic Advisers, and the Office of Management and Budget.
Seite 134 - On federal job guarantees, majorities in each group think that the federal government should see to it that every person who wants to work has a job.
Seite 64 - Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of The First National Bank of Boston, which he joined in 1970.
Seite 121 - Where a proposed project is one which has been demonstrated or is in use elsewhere, the applicant will be expected to show the key variables...
Seite 112 - Howell, senior vice president and chief economist of the First National Bank of Boston...
Seite 62 - ... more smoothly rest heavily upon minimizing existing frictions and obstacles that prevent their orderly interaction with the other sectors of the New England and national economies. This emphasis is important because it recognizes the imperative need to first clear away these structural impediments before any more sweeping policy options can be considered.
Seite 8 - ... phenomenon, the conservative majority syndrome. He said that it has expressed itself in the feeling that: There are no poor, no aged, no sick, no black, no other minorities, no people in this country are seriously squeezed by inflation, not many for whom unemployment is a major issue, no one whoever whose health, education, food, shelter, protection from economic abuse or exploitation or even survival, the problems that depend upon the government of this country.
Seite 69 - The economic future of New England rests on the ability to create an overall business environment that will provide the incentive to keep more of these production-line jobs in the region.
Seite 119 - Examine the effectiveness of the present employment programs for the State including that conducted under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act" ; 2. "To establish priorities for the use of public service jobs under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA)" ; and 3. "To consider new programs and methods in which the State can respond to the present unemployment problem.
Seite 110 - The computer requires more than toleration, or the attitude that "it's here to stay and we may as well learn to live with it." Companies that are living with the computer begrudgingly are usually unhappy with the results, and will be for a long time. The computer is a mechanical beast, and its master, the human, is a fantastically complex and wonderful creature possessed of powers to think, reason, judge, and feel. So if an...

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