Distressed Areas, Distressed People.

Discusses the launch of legislative and executive program on poverty in the U.S. Argument on unemployment compensation system; Loopholes in unemployment compensation system; Discussion on the duration of unemployment benefits; Existence of persistent unemployment and continuous automation; Programs and policies by U.S. President Dwight David Eisenhower in 1958 to grant loans to distressed communities; Fixation of minimum wage level for the U.S. workers; Argument that Education and Labor Committee reported a bill adding some 3.4 million more to the program, and raising the wage for all to $1.25.