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1932 › Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic) › Public employment offices
A federally coordinated system of state employment offices (the vetoed Wagner bill)
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Solution
Enact the Wagner employment-service bill Hoover vetoed: a nationally coordinated system of employment offices operated by the states with advisory boards of employers and employees; federal leadership to stimulate and coordinate state systems.
Rationale
Facilitates reemployment of the jobless; New York's experience shows state employment services work.
Statements (3)
As to the coordinated employment offices, I can only tell you that I was for the bills sponsored by Senator Wagner of my own State and passed by the Congress. They created a nationally coordinated system of employment offices operated by the individual States with the advisory cooperation of joint boards of employers and employees.
I am certain that the Federal Government can, by furnishing leadership, stimulate the various States to set up and coordinate practical, useful systems.
The first, employment exchanges, is clearly and inescapably a task of the Federal Government, although it will require the loyal and intelligent cooperation of State and local agencies throughout the land. To that Federal action I pledge my administration.
Follow-through
kept
The Wagner-Peyser Act, signed June 6, 1933, created the federal-state United States Employment Service — the bill Hoover had vetoed in 1931.
Mechanisms
| Date | Type | Name | Effect | Consistent? | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1933-06-06 | statute | Wagner-Peyser Act charted on: Unemployment rate (NBER series, 1929–1942) | As part of the New Deal , President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the act into law on June 6, 1933, at the White House. | yes | Wagner–Peyser Act - Wikipedia |
Assessments
Enacted in the Hundred Days as pledged at Boston.
Other positions on this issue
- Commend and continue the enlarged United States Employment Service — Herbert Hoover, 1932 directional_stance
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