PRINTER'S NO. 1970
No. 143 Session of 1983
INTRODUCED BY COLAFELLA, MRKONIC, STEVENS, HALUSKA, GALLAGHER,
RYBAK, McHALE, FREEMAN, STEIGHNER, OLASZ, DALEY, PRATT,
CIMINI, VROON, HARPER, COWELL, DeLUCA, ITKIN, TRUMAN, POTT,
RICHARDSON, BELFANTI, MAIALE, ALDERETTE, CESSAR, PETERSON,
MERRY, MORRIS, McVERRY, ARTY, CIVERA, LESCOVITZ, WOZNIAK,
PISTELLA, CLARK AND MISCEVICH, OCTOBER 12, 1983
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON RULES, OCTOBER 17, 1983
A RESOLUTION
1 Memorializing the United States Congress to increase Federal
2 Supplemental Compensation benefit weeks and extend the
3 Federal Supplemental Compensation Program to March 31, 1984.
4 WHEREAS, The Pennsylvania unemployment rate is now one of the
5 fourth highest of all states; and
6 WHEREAS, Manufacturing employment in the State is at its
7 lowest level in 40 years; and
8 WHEREAS, A great many of the hourly and salaried jobs in the
9 State's durable goods industries have been lost in the last 24
10 months; and
11 WHEREAS, More than 250,000 jobs were lost in Pennsylvania
12 during the last year, the largest increase in the 25 years such
13 a statistic has been kept; and
14 WHEREAS, Unemployment among blacks is at a record; and
15 WHEREAS, Pennsylvania is a leader in the Nation in the number
16 of layoffs resulting from plant closings and reductions; and
1 WHEREAS, Many persons will lose their Federal Supplemental
2 Compensation shortly and will be forced to turn to the welfare
3 rolls, for which there is no adequate or planned budget;
4 therefore be it
5 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the
6 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania memorialize the United States
7 Congress to adopt legislation which would add an additional ten
8 weeks of Federal Supplement Compensation, totally Federally
9 funded; and be it further
10 RESOLVED, That the Federal Supplemental Compensation Program
11 be extended by Congress to March 31, 1984; and be it further
12 RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be immediately
13 transmitted to the presiding officers of each house of Congress
14 and to each member of Congress from Pennsylvania.
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