Unemployment insurance under state laws

We advocate unemployment and old-age insurance under state laws.

That admirable document, the platform which you have adopted, is clear. I accept it 100 percent.

Blanket endorsement of every plank.

Some leaders have wisely declared for a system of unemployment insurance throughout this broad land of ours; and we are going to come to it.

Old-age, sickness and unemployment insurance are minimum requirements in these days. But they are not enough.

The first part of the question is directly answered by the Democratic platform, which advocates unemployment insurance under State laws.

Question asked about compulsory state reserves plus federally coordinated employment offices.

This type of insurance is not a cure-all, but it provides at least a cushion to mitigate unemployment in times of depression. It is sound if, after starting it, we stick to the principle of sound insurance financing.

Fourth, the report recommended an adequate system of unemployment insurance. No one in the Administration in Washington has assumed any leadership in order to bring about positive action by the States to make this unemployment insurance a reality. Some day, in our leadership, we are going to get it.

The third, unemployment reserves, must under our system of Government be primarily the responsibility of the several States. That, the Democratic platform, on which I stand, makes entirely clear.

Unemployment insurance was enacted as Title III.

With its passage came programs like Old Age Assistance (Title I), Old Age Insurance (Title II), Unemployment Insurance (Title III), Aid to Dependent Children (Title IV) and Aid to the Blind (Title V).