WASHINGTON, Jan. 28, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:
UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE
Profile America — Wednesday, January 28th. As the Great Depression approached its worst, Wisconsin made the nation's first governmental direct relief effort for the unemployed. On this date in 1932, it enacted unemployment insurance, soon followed by a half-dozen other states before the Social Security Act in middecade moved all states to adopt such programs by 1937. Wisconsin's program issued its first unemployment check in August in the amount of $15. By 2011, states and local governments took in almost $88 billion from the payroll tax to fund unemployment insurance. But they spent nearly $122 billion in such assistance. States have nearly $3 trillion in combined insurance trust funds, but an aggregate deficit of $18.5 billion for covering unemployment. Profile America is in its 18th year as a public service of the U.S. Census Bureau.
Sources: Kane's Famous First Facts, 4525
Wisconsin effort: http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/4634308?uid=3739584&uid=2&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21101461107107
National response: http://www.dol.gov/ocia/pdf/75th-Anniversary-Summary-FINAL.pdf
State & local unemployment revenue and expenditure/pages 6 & 8: http://www2.census.gov/govs/local/summary_report.pdf
http://www2.census.gov/govs/local/summary_report.pdf
http://www.dol.gov/ocia/pdf/75th-Anniversary-Summary-FINAL.pdf
Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and Promotions of the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Multimedia Gallery" by the "Newsroom" button).
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SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau
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