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an estimated 11.7 per cent in the first half of 1964.
The chronically rising tide of idle man power and plant
correlates with the inadequate United States economic
growth rte.
What is more important in the life of a man
than the right to have a job? There was an old sociologist
at the University of Pennsylvania who taught us that work
is to man what play is to a child, and we will fail this
generation and the generation to come unless we evolve
a concept which will be a mandate to the General Assembly
and to the executive leadership of our state and in our
I political subdivisions to come together, private and
public, in the private and public sectors, and make
provisions for the needs of man.
I just call attention to the fact that in
Maryland five areas of our state are still designated
depressed areas, and eligible for aid under the Federal
Area Redevelopment Act of 1961, Public Law 8727, and the
following are the standards which are used in determining
whether an area is depressed; No. I, whether there has
been chronic, continuing unemployment which is one