Unemployment Benefits, Wages, and Living Costs
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*Bureau of Employment Security, Program Division. 1 Issues in Social Security, a report to the House Committee on Ways and Means by the Committee's Social Security Technical Staff (79th Cong., 1st sess.), 1946, p. 388. O N E FEATURE of the Sta te unemployment insurance laws in this country about which there has been very little disagreement is the principle of r e lating weekly benefits to pas t wages. While i t has generally been agreed t h a t benefits should be related in some way to previous weekly earnings, few at tempts have been made to develop criteria for determining the proportion of wage loss to be compensated. Perhaps the clearest approach is the following s ta tement in the Calhoun report : 1
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