The Economic Report of the President: Hearings Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United StatesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1964 - United States |
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... average annual rate of only 3.9 percent . In other words , from the second quarter of 1962 to the fourth quarter of 1963 , the average rate of growth , average rate of expansion , was only about 4 percent , and during that time , the ...
... average annual rate of only 3.9 percent . In other words , from the second quarter of 1962 to the fourth quarter of 1963 , the average rate of growth , average rate of expansion , was only about 4 percent , and during that time , the ...
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... average 1.3 million new workers per year , as compared with an average increase of 800,000 per year during the 1950's . Labor productivity will continue to rise . Total capacity to produce grows about $ 30 billion a year in current ...
... average 1.3 million new workers per year , as compared with an average increase of 800,000 per year during the 1950's . Labor productivity will continue to rise . Total capacity to produce grows about $ 30 billion a year in current ...
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... average of the previous 3 years . Presumably this will be a result of the immediate application of the 14 - percent withholding rate . a restrictive factor on the economy next spring ? Won't this be Answer . It is estimated that the ...
... average of the previous 3 years . Presumably this will be a result of the immediate application of the 14 - percent withholding rate . a restrictive factor on the economy next spring ? Won't this be Answer . It is estimated that the ...
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... average — would prefer to be operating at 92 percent of capacity , whereas they are currently oper- ating at about 87 percent of capacity according to a measure of capacity utilization compiled at the Federal Reserve Board , based on ...
... average — would prefer to be operating at 92 percent of capacity , whereas they are currently oper- ating at about 87 percent of capacity according to a measure of capacity utilization compiled at the Federal Reserve Board , based on ...
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... average for year , estimated by Council of Economic Advisers . Source : McGraw - Hill Survey , April 1963. Preferred operating rate for iron and steel based on McGraw- Hill Survey , November 1962 . If we suppose that demand for output ...
... average for year , estimated by Council of Economic Advisers . Source : McGraw - Hill Survey , April 1963. Preferred operating rate for iron and steel based on McGraw- Hill Survey , November 1962 . If we suppose that demand for output ...
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Page 156 - President, the Economic Report of the President and the Annual Report of the Council of Economic Advisers already go a long way toward specifying an economic and financial program.
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Page 3 - The subcommittee recommends that industry, and management for its part, must be prepared to accept the human costs of displacement and retraining as charges against the savings from the introduction of automation.
Page 27 - Poverty is costly not only to the poor but to the whole society. Its ugly by-products include ignorance, disease, delinquency, crime, irresponsibility, immorality, indifference.
Page 29 - It is desirable that labor and management should bargain explicitly about the distribution of the income of particular firms or industries. It is, however, undesirable that they should bargain implicitly about the general price level.