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50 Pol. Sci. Q. 1 (1935)

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March,  1935


Volume L]


      POLITICAL SCIENCE


               QUARTERLY


* NEW  ASPECTS OF UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE

EVENTS change attitudes. Unemployment compensa-
       tion is no longer regarded as a disreputable interloper.
       Perhaps it is because she contrasts favorably with the
newcomers at the economic table. Government relief on an
enormous scale or its rivals, public works or civil works relief,
have elbowed their way in. They  have very bad  manners
indeed, and make unemployment compensation seem relatively
modest and sensible.
  It must be  confessed that unemployment insurance had
innately certain obvious disadvantages that her apologetic
friends found it difficult to explain away. She was by no
means as impeccable as her arrive'e relative, workmen's com-
pensation insurance, despite the striking resemblance to that
participant at the community table who was for a long time
accepted as a most respected and respectable member. For
this resemblance though striking was superficial. For ex-
ample there is little danger of malingering under a workmen's
compensation scheme, which only provides a man with benefits
during his incapacity because of physical injury. A normal
man  does not deliberately cut off his hand or maim himself.
On the other hand, as a very distinguished English authority
on unemployment  insurance stated to the writer in an expan-
sive moment,  everybody loves a vacation.
  Indeed the objections to unemployment compensation alias
unemployment  insurance were formidable. Even  advocates
were perplexed as to how to avoid decreasing the  mobility
  * Part of this article appeared in The New York Times of Sunday, Nov.
18, 1934.


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