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Excerpt from Insurance Against Unemployment The question of the proper methods to be adopted for the alleviation of the distress caused by unemployment presses for solution. Among such methods one of very great interest is that, under which provision is made against the loss consequent upon the temporary suspension of their earning power suffered by work people during periods of unemployment by a system of insurance. Under this system the arrangement made is, that, by means of premiums, contributed by the insurers, while they are in work, there is accumulated a Fund, out of which, in case of their becoming out of work, they have the right to receive allowances on a fixed scale. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.