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Relief through voluntary mobilization and local responsibility, with RFC loans to exhausted states — no federal dole — Herbert Hoover, 1932

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Score	Cycle	Candidate	Issue	Position
0.50	1932	Norman Thomas	Unemployment insurance	Compulsory unemployment insurance funded by employers and by higher income and inheritance taxes
0.47	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Public works as employment policy	Expand self-sustaining public works and temporary federal work (forests, flood control, waterways), with advance planning
0.46	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Reorganization of the executive branch	Consolidate the seven federal farm-mortgage agencies under a single purpose
0.45	1936	Alf Landon	Amending the Constitution to enlarge (or restrain) federal power	Wages, hours and child labor by State law and interstate compact -- and a constitutional amendment giving the States power if the courts forbid
0.44	1932	Norman Thomas	Federal responsibility for relief	A $5 billion federal appropriation for immediate relief of those in need
0.42	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Federal responsibility for relief	Federal leadership in distress relief — federal credit to states whose resources are exhausted
0.42	1932	Herbert Hoover	Regulation of securities issuance and exchanges	No federal 'blue sky' law — securities regulation belongs to the states, and the President should not police booms
0.42	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Housing and slum clearance	Slum clearance and modern housing for the urban poor as a "human necessity" among public works
0.41	1936	Alf Landon	Politics and patronage in relief administration	Relief will continue, but purged of politics, administered locally on merit, with economies taken from 'the political exploiters'
0.40	1932	Albert C. Ritchie	Federal responsibility for relief	States' rights and business-led recovery — no federal intervention in relief
0.39	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Working hours and labor standards	Revive the NRA's principles 'by one device or another' (imputed; the President would not say)
0.39	1932	Herbert Hoover	Public works as employment policy	Federal construction at three times normal and $1.5 billion of RFC loans for self-liquidating works — but no pork-barrel or non-productive projects
0.38	1936	Alf Landon	Unemployment insurance	Leave unemployment insurance to State experiment; no federal tax to compel it
0.38	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Tariff levels	A "competitive" tariff set through a scientific Tariff Commission, with anti-log-rolling rules and a public counsel
0.38	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Amending the Constitution to enlarge (or restrain) federal power	Meet constitutional obstacles by 'clarifying amendment' -- and say nothing about the Supreme Court
0.37	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Sickness and health insurance	Sickness insurance as a "minimum requirement" alongside old-age and unemployment insurance
0.37	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	National economic planning	Industry leaders to organize cooperatively for the common good; government regulates only as a last resort
0.37	1936	William E. Borah	Antitrust and concentration of economic power	Drive monopoly and price fixing out of the system or face governmental regimentation
0.37	1936	Alf Landon	National economic planning	End federal regimentation: no revival of NRA or AAA controls, no more emergency powers over production, wages and hours
0.36	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Restriction of immigration	Continue immigration restriction to protect labor, but end abuses against individual families in enforcement
0.36	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Child labor	No return to sweatshops or children working in factories
0.36	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Farm prices and agricultural surplus	Restore purchasing power to the farming half of the nation
0.35	1932	Herbert Hoover	Short-term and marketing credit for agriculture	Restore short-term farm credit through the new agricultural credit corporations, RFC loans to processors and financing of export sales
0.35	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Benefits for disabled and service-connected veterans	Full justice and generosity for veterans disabled by actual wartime service — silence on the bonus
0.35	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Public works as employment policy	'Employment for all surplus labor at all times' through self-liquidating public works (the Shearon letter, as Hoover read it)