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personnel The conference is
Resources Planning Board
the administrators of the youth work
programs.
E. All young people seeking public
work should be required TO register
at public employment offices, and
they should be referred to the va
rious special programs by this serv-
ice. Access to the youth work pro-
grams should not be limited to young
people in economic need.
Restricted Eligibility.
F. Eligibility for the youth work
programs should be ordinarily re-
stricted to persons under 81 years
OF age unless it can be shown that,
because Of the absence of public pro-
visions, they have not had access to
special youth programs or have not
had adequate work experience
through private employment prior
to reaching this age
G. Facilities for counseling and
guidance should be made available
to all young people and their parents.
The actual counseling should be per-
formed by the schools and the pub
lie employment service The en-
ployment service through a special
youth-servCe unit, should act as the
local o-ordinating body.
H, All youth programs should de-
vote special attention to the physical
health Of youth. and financial pro-
vision should be made accordingly.
I, The youth work programs
should be financed and admins
tered on national basis, and the
present CCC and NYA out -of-school
work programs should be combined
in unified administration Local
sponsorship of work projects should
be encouraged so long as this is con-
slstent with the development of work
projects appropriate to the needs of
youth.
3. Work Programs for Handicapped.
Further study should be given to
the development Of therapeutic work
programs for those with special
physical and mental handicaps and
disabilities.
The Social assurances.
A. Disability insurance.
The existing protection against
economic insecurity through social
insurance measures should be ex-
banded by the development Of a
system of social insurance to pro-
vide at least partial compensation
for loss of income attribute BILE to
permanent or temporary disability.
B. Unemployment compensation.
The unemployment compensation
system should be strengthened and
expanded in the following ways:
ca Coverage should be extended
to embrace Seamen and employees
OF nonprof1t corporations and of
firms employing one worker or more.
The inclusion of workers in dOmes-
tic agricultural, and other low-paid
employments should be considered
In relation to the patterns of en-
ployment, the character and amount
OF their earnings, and the feasibility
Of devising a benefit formula which
will yield them significant payments.
Consideration might be given TO the
desirability Of developing a separate
system with its own eligibility. bene-
fit. and contribution provisions for
agricultural workers
tbb The duration Of benefits
should be extended to Is weeks and
should be uniform for all eligible
workers
Co The benefit formulas should
be reconSidered with a view to as
surfing benefits which will enable
the vast majority of recipients to
maintain themselves for a period IN
to 26 weeks without recourse to sup
Elementary payments under other
forms Of public aid. The payment
OF dependents allowances would be
first step in this direction.
I'D Eligibility rules should be re-
vlsed so as to admit to insurance
benefits only workers whose past
earnings and employment records
offer a presumption that they viii
draw significant benefits from the
system and yet not such amounts as
to induce them to prefer benefit
status TO self-suppolt. The adop-
ton OF duration of past employment
III place Of previous earnings as a
criterion of eligibility should be eX-
plOred
'e) Experience rating should be
abandoned, If experience rating is
retained. minimum Federal stand
ards relating to eligibility. duration,
and amount of benefit are essential.
~ The present Federol-State
system should be replaced BY
wholly Federal administrative or
gani7atiOn.
ga There should be single ma
tional unemployment concentration
fund. part Of which should be drawn
from general tai sources. IF. how
ever, the system is not placed uDon
national basis, a reinsurance svs-
TEN accompanied by Feder2l stand