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Statement on Unemployment Insurance and Statement on Legislative Priorities for 1985, before the NYS Assembly Committee on Labor, by ILGWU exec. VP Wilbur Daniels, December 10, 1984; letter to ILG general secy. treas. Jay Mazur from Assemblyman Frank Barbaro re proposed increase in unemployment insurance benefits, February 3, 1988; AFL-CIO letter discussing recent national developments, March 8, 1991, with attached statistical report, "Worker's Compensation and Unemployment Insurance under State Laws, January 1, 1991"; NYS Department of Labor reports, "A History of Unemployment Insurance Legislation in the United States and New York State, 1935-1983" and "Shared Work: Maintaining the Foundation of Economic Security: Interim Evaluation Submitted to the Legislature," U.S. Dept. of Labor occasional paper, "Beginning the Unemployment Insurance Program - An Oral History," 1985; April 1987; Industrial Relations Research Association Series Proceedings of the Thirty- Seventh Annual Meeting, December 28-30, 1984; memo re rise in weekly claims, December 13, 1984