LIST OF TABLES |
Table No. |
Table Title |
Pages |
PART I. UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION |
1. |
Countries in which compulsory unemployment insurance or compensation laws have been enacted and number of workers covered in each,1935 |
6 |
2. |
Countries in which laws have been enacted subsidizing voluntary insurance systems and the number of workers covered in each, 1935 |
7 |
3. |
Maximum weekly incomes below which a state of need exists, Belgium |
41 |
4. |
Unemployment in manufacturing, transportation, building trades, and mining, 1897-1926, as estimated by Paul H. Douglas |
56 |
5. |
Estimates of average nonagricultural employment and unemployment, by States,1930-33 |
facing page 58 |
6. |
States arrayed by average percentage of unemployment within the compensable labor force, April 1930; 1933 average; and 1930-33 average |
60 |
7. |
Estimated numbers of employees attached to the various industries, 1920-27 |
62 |
8. |
Average annual indexes of employment in selected manufacturing industries, 1923-28 |
63 |
9. |
Estimated numbers of employees attached to transportation and communication industries, 1920-27 |
64 |
10. |
Proportion of full time worked by all employed workers in 29 industries, United States, 1922-33 |
65 |
11. |
Employment status of gainful workers enumerated in four areas |
67
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12. |
Employment status of employed workers in three areas |
68 |
13. |
Indexes of seasonal variations in factory pay rolls in the United States,1923-31 |
70 |
14. |
Estimated compensable labor force in the United States, April 1930 |
78 |
15. |
Estimated compensable labor force, United States, 1922-33 |
79 |
16. |
State cumulated contributions available for benefits at 3-, 4-, and 5 percent contribution rates, United States, 1922-33 |
81 |
17. |
Estimates of the compensable wage loss of the covered unemployed in the United States,1923-33 |
82 |
18. |
Percentage and cumulative percentage distribution of the unemployed able and willing to work, by duration of unemployment at date of census or survey, according to various magnitudes of unemployment |
84 |
19. |
Cumulative distribution of the total compensable wage loss, 1923-33 |
86 |
20. |
Adjusted cumulative distribution of the total compensable wage loss 1923-33 |
87 |
21. |
Adjusted cumulative distribution of the total compensable wage loss, 1923-30 |
88 |
22. |
State grants for unemployment compensation administration and conditions for credit allowance against tax on employers of eight or more |
facing page 96 |
23. |
Estimated coverage of assumed unemployment compensation system, by States, average for 1930 |
108 |
24. |
Estimated number of employed workers covered, by States, 1933 |
109 |
25. |
Estimated wages and salaries of compensable labor force and income from a 3-percent contribution, by States, 1933 |
117 |
PART II. OLD-AGE SECURITY |
26. |
Actual and estimated number of persons aged 65 and over compared to total population, 1860-2000 |
141 |
27. |
Rate of increase of population by age groups for the United Staten, 1870-1930 |
141 |
28. |
Age distribution of the total, urban, and rural population of the United States, 1920 and 1930 |
142 |
29. |
Percentage of persona 45 years of age and over among gainfully occupied, by sex, for the United States, 1890-1930 |
143 |
30. |
Percentage of unemployment (14 weeks and over) among males and females in each age group for the United States, 1930 |
146 |
31. |
Persons with previous work experience at non-relief employment seeking work, classified by length of time since last nonrelief employment of 4 weeks or more and by age |
148 |
32. |
Percentage of persons 65 and over having property less than $5,000 and income less than $300 annually |
151 |
33. |
Old-age dependency in the State of New York, July 1, 1929 |
152 |
34. |
Economic status of aged studied in the District of Columbia, 1934 |
152 |
35. |
Years of residence in State of persons 65 and over on relief |
157 |
36. |
Principal features of the old-age assistance laws of the United States (as of Jan. 1, 1935) |
facing page 160 |
37. |
Operation of State old-age assistance acts during 1934 |
164 |
38. |
Provisions of the old-age assistance laws in the United States (as of Oct. 15, 1935) |
168 |
39. |
Old-age assistance. and insurance legislation in foreign countries through 1933 |
182 |
40. |
Principal provisions of foreign noncontributory old-age assistance laws through 1933 |
facing page 184 |
41. |
Weekly contributory old-age pensions for various countries in relation to weekly wages in those countries |
186 |
42. |
Number of recipients of old-age assistance (noncontributory) and contributory pensions in foreign countries and number of people of eligible age |
186 |
43. |
Foreign noncontributory old-age assistance systems (changes in proportion of recipients to population of eligible age since effective date of law) |
187 |
44. |
Estimates of the number of old-age assistance recipients and the amount of Federal subsidy to State old-age assistance programs |
194 |
45. |
Progress of tax and benefit payments under proposed old-age annuity plan |
212 |
46. |
Summary of provisions for Federal grants to States for old-age assist- |
219
|
47. |
Summary of principal provisions of the Federal Social Security Act relating to Federal old-age benefits |
223 |
48. |
Monthly benefits payable for specified total wages as defined for the purposes of title I I of the Social Security Act |
224 |
PART III. SECURITY FOR CHILDREN |
49. |
Conditions under which aid to dependent children may be granted and limitations on amount of aid (1934) |
235 |
50. |
Extent to which aid to dependent children is provided: Annual per capita expenditure and percentage of counties granting aid, 1934 |
237 |
51. |
Estimated number of families and children receiving aid to dependent children (based on figures available Nov. 15, 1934) |
238 |
52. |
Marital status of families with female heads and number of children under 21 years and under 10 years: United States population census, 1930 (unpublished figures) |
240 |
53. |
Distribution of widowed and separated or divorced women heads of relief families in urban areas with children under the age of 16 years, based on 5-percent sample study of occupational characteristics of relief families in 79 cities, May 1934 |
243 |
54. |
Characteristics of households with widowed and separated or divorced women heads of relief families in urban areas with children under the age of 16 years, based on 5-percent sample study of occupational characteristics of relief families in 79 cities, May 1934 |
244 |
55. |
Estimated annual expenditures for aid to dependent children (based on figures available Nov. 15, 1934) |
245 |
56. |
Average monthly grant per family for aid to dependent children |
247 |
57. |
Funds for State maternal and child-health work, 1928 and 1934 |
272 |
58. |
State funds for maternal and child-health work, 1934 |
273 |
59. |
Permanent public-health nursing service in the counties of 24 States, 1934 |
275 |
60. |
Permanent prenatal and child-health centers in the counties of 18 States, 1934 |
275 |
61. |
Physical defects or conditions needing attention as reported by mother to visiting nurse among 9,472 children included in 3,500 families under the care of public-health nursing agencies in 25 cities, November 1934 |
277 |
62. |
Adequacy of family milk supply in 3,500 families under the care of public-health nursing agencies in 25 cities, November 1934 |
278 |
63. |
State and county public funds for care of crippled children |
285 |
64. |
Summary of provisions for Federal grants to States for aid to dependent children (mothers' aid) |
293 |
PART IV. PROVISIONS FOR THE BLIND |
65. |
Data on the operation of systems for aid to the blind in the United States, 1934 |
303 |
66. |
Principal provisions of State laws providing for allowances for the blind (as of Aug. 1, 1935) |
306 |
67. |
Summary of provisions for Federal grants to States for aid to the blind |
311 |
PART VI. THE NEED FOR FEDERAL SUPPORT OF SOCIAL SECURITY PROGRAMS |
68.
|
Statutory placement of financial responsibility for various welfare activities in the several States, Aug. 1, 1935 |
349
|
69.
|
Distribution of financial responsibility, August 1935 |
350
|
70.
|
Assessed valuations and general property-tax receipts of local units of government, 1922 and 1932 |
353
|
71.
|
Trend of population, assessed valuation, and tax levy, city of Detroit, 1915-34 |
353
|
72.
|
Receipts by local authorities of England and Wales |
357
|
73.
|
Trend of net indebtedness of local units of government, 1902-32 |
357
|
74.
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Net bonded debt of cities of over 500,000 population (excluding self-supporting indebtedness), Jan. 1, 1929, and 1934 |
358
|
75.
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Revenues, expenditures, and indebtedness of cities (with 1924 population of 300,000 or more), 1924-32 |
359
|
76.
|
Trend of relief expenditures |
359
|
77.
|
Trend of State government tax receipts, 48 States, 1925-32 |
361
|
78.
|
Trend of State expenditures for government, 48 States, 1925-32 |
362
|
79.
|
Indexes of State wealth and income |
364
|
80.
|
State and local tax receipts, 1932, and ratios of tax receipts to indexes of State wealth and income |
367
|
81.
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Ratio of State and local tax receipts, 1932, (a) to income, 1929; (b) to retail sales, 1933; and (c) to taxable wealth, 1931 |
368
|
82.
|
State and local net indebtedness,1912-32 |
368
|
83.
|
Per-capita State and local net debt, 1922 and 1932, and ratio of 1932 net debt to income and wealth |
370
|
84.
|
Grants to States for social security |
372
|
85.
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The coat of a 1-, 3-, and 6-percent tax on pay rolls of wage earners and salaried workers for selected industries in terms of value added by manufacture and total value of products |
376
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APPENDIXES |
I-1.
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Occupations excluded from the unemployment compensation plan, United States, April 1930 |
386
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I-2.
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Occupational exclusions of gainful workers from the unemployment compensation plan by industries, United States, April 1930 |
387
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I-3.
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Number and percent of coal-mining establishments and wage earners, by number of wage earners per establishment, United Staten,1929 |
388
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I-4.
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Number and percent of mining and quarrying establishments and wage earners, by number of wage earners per establishment, United States, 1929 |
388
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I-5.
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Number and percent of manufacturing establishments and wage earners, by number of wage earners per establishment, United States,1929 |
389
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I-6.
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Estimated distribution of "wholesalers only" establishments and employees, by average number of employees per establishment, United States, 1929 |
390
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I-7.
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Estimated distribution of establishments and employees in wholesale trade, by average number of employees per establishment, United Staten, 1929 |
390
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I-8. |
Estimated distribution of retail stores, employees, and average number of employees per store, by volume of sales per store, United States, 1929 |
391 |
I-9. |
Estimated distribution of establishments and employees in retail trade, by number of employees per average establishment, United States,1929 |
391 |
I-10. |
"Size-of-firm" exclusion of gainful workers by industries, United States, April 1930 |
393 |
I-11. |
Distribution of total gainful workers and unemployed workers by socio-economic groups in the United States, April 1930 |
394 |
I-12. |
Employed compensable labor force by industry and by type of exclusion, United States, April 1930 |
395 |
I-13. |
Employed compensable labor force by industries, United States, April 1930 |
396 |
I-14. |
Unemployed compensable labor force, United States, April 1930 |
396 |
I-15. |
Estimated compensable labor force in the United States, April 1930 |
397 |
I-16. |
Estimated compensable labor force, United States, 1922-33 |
398 |
I-17. |
Estimates of the compensable labor force, 1930-33, by States |
400 |
II-1. |
Distribution of the unemployed by duration of unemployment, Los Angeles, California, April 1930 and January 1931 |
405 |
II-2. |
Duration of unemployment by weeks, Los Angeles, California, April 1930 and January 1931 |
407 |
II-3. |
Average unemployment rate in compensable labor force, for years represented by each composite curve, and in cities in corresponding years |
412 |
III-1. |
Assessable wages and salaries of employed compensable labor force, United States,1922-33 |
416 |
IV-1. |
Personnel of public employment offices by States, 1935, compared with estimated number needed for unemployment compensation activities |
438 |
VIII-1. |
Noncontributory old-age pensions in Canada |
454 |
VIII-2. |
Distribution of noncontributory old-age pensioners by Provinces in Canada |
454 |
VIII-3. |
Distribution of Canadian Government annuity contracts written in 1930 |
455 |
IX-1. |
The insured population and beneficiaries of foreign survivors' insurance laws |
462 |
IX-2. |
Comparison of average survivors' pensions with weekly wages for unskilled labor in engineering trades |
466 |
X-1. |
Legal provisions for computing invalidity, old-age, and survivors' pensions |
472 |
X-2. |
Total benefit payments and distribution of cost |
474 |
X-3. |
Percentage distribution of cost of pensions between the individual funds, the common fund, and the Federal Government |
476 |
X-4. |
Investment of reserve, 1891-1933 |
478 |
X-5. |
Investment of reserve by type of investment |
480 |
X-6. |
Investments promoting the general welfare |
481 |
X-7. |
Receipts and expenditures,1891-1934 |
483 |
X-8. |
Proportion of cost of administration to total expenditures and total receipts |
485 |
X-9. |
Wage classes and contribution rates, 1891-1934 |
486 |
X-10. |
Rate of contribution as percent of lower and upper limit of each wage class |
486 |
X-11. |
Yearly amount of old-age pension |
488 |
X-12. |
Average yearly amount of old-age pension grants |
489 |
X-13. |
Yearly amount of invalidity pension |
491 |
X-14. |
Average yearly amount of the invalidity pension grants |
492 |
X-15. |
Average yearly amount of widows' pension grants |
493 |
X-16. |
Average yearly amount of orphans' pension grants |
494 |
X-17. |
Number of persons in receipt of pensions, 1891-1934 |
494 |
X-18. |
Number of pensioners 65 years of age or over |
495 |
XI-1. |
Trend of birth rates in the United States expanding birth registration area by States, 1915-34 |
499 |
XI-2. |
Trend of maternal mortality in the United States birth-registration area by States, 1915-34 |
500 |
XI-3. |
Trend of maternal mortality by color in the United States birth registration area and in States having 1,500 or more Negro births in 1934; 1915-34 |
502 |
XI-4. |
Trend of maternal mortality in the United States and certain foreign countries,1915-34 |
504 |
XI-5. |
Trend of infant mortality in the United States birth-registration area by States,1915-34 |
505 |
XI-6. |
Trend of infant mortality by color in the United States birth registration area and in States having 1,500 or more Negro births in 1934;1915-34 |
506 |
XI-7. |
Trend of infant mortality in urban and rural districts of the United States birth-registration area by States, 1915-34 |
509 |
XI-8. |
Infant mortality rates (deaths under l year per 1,000 live births), by specified groups of causes, in the United States birth registration area of 1921, exclusive of South Carolina, 1921-34 |
513
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LIST OF FIGURES |
Table No. |
Table Title |
Pages |
1. |
Actual and estimated number of persons aged 65 and over compared to total population, 1860-2000 |
140 |
2. |
Employed male population 40 years and over compared to total male population 40 years and over |
147 |
3. |
Maternal mortality in the United States, 1933 |
262 |
4. |
Infant mortality in the United States, 1933 |
264 |
5. |
Mortality in the first month and the first year of life, United States, 1934, from specified groups of causes |
266 |
6. |
Trend of infant mortality in urban and rural districts of the United States |
268 |
II-1. |
Curves showing cumulative distribution of the unemployed by duration of unemployment, Los Angeles, Calif |
406 |
II-2. |
Typical curves showing hypothetical distributions of the unemployed by duration of unemployment |
409 |
II-3. |
Curves showing composite cumulative duration distributions of the unemployed |
411 |