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NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY ACT: One of the first acts passed under New Deal program the Roosevelt administration in 1933, it specifically allowed workers to organized into unions and to engage in collective bargaining without interference from firms. This act, going by the acronym NIRA, was declared unconstitutional in 1935, but while in force gave a big boost to labor unions and membership. The National Labor Relations Act was created in 1935 to replace the NIRA.
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ALTERNATIVE UNEMPLOYMENT RATES The official unemployment rate estimated and reported monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) using data from Current Population Survey is one of six alternative measures of unemployment tracked and reported by the BLS, officially labeled sequentially U1 through U6. The "official" unemployment rate is U3. The other five measures seek to document different ways in which labor can be under utilized, including unemployment duration, job losers, discouraged workers, marginal workers, and part-time workers.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time searching for a specialty store wanting to buy either throw pillows for your bed or a package of blank rewritable CDs. Be on the lookout for pencil sharpeners with an attitude.
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Before 1933, the U.S. dime was legal as payment only in transactions of $10 or less.
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"Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must. " -- Charles Kettering, inventor
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