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Precisely the opposite is the effect. An adequate program of social security tends to put a floor under depression by helping to maintain the total flow of national income. The benefit payments made help to sustain the volume of mass consumption expenditures...
Sooner or later according to all past experiences this postwar period of prosperity will end in a depression unless we adopt a positive program to maintain full employment. This is the great new field of economic statesmanship. Our modern highly urbanized, highly industrialized sections can no longer stand the social strain and economic shock of great depressions...
...program to maintain full employment, and an ever advancing national income as productivity increases, requires a more positive role by government than we have had in the past. We have neglected the conservation and development of our material and human resources. By means of sound public investment projects we can raise the productivity of the country, increase the real income, and open up investment outlets for private enterprise...
Modern fiscal policy stresses the role of a federal budget as a means to maintain effective demand and full employment. But the budget must be controlled so as to prevent both inflation and deflation. We must nor permit the budget to grow so large that demand outruns supply...
...legal minimum [wage] rates . . . are clearly insufficient to maintain a decent and healthy standard of living...