ers currently earning less than $1.25 per hour would receive $896 million more. There are some workers who were exempted from minimum wage and overtime provisions of the Federal Labor Standards Act.
             Kennedy proposed measures both to alleviate the distress arising from unsatisfactory performance of the economy and to stimulate economic recovery and growth. If economic development in the first quarter of that year indicate that additional measures are needed, he would promptly propose such measures. The potential of the American economy is constantly expanding. The labor force rose by 1.5 percent per year. Output per man rises annually by 2 percent as a result of new and better plant and equipment , modern technology, and improved human skills. These increases in manpower and productivity provide the base for a potential annual growth rate can and should be increased. A proposal was made to expand the nation's investments in physical and human resources and in science and technology. Back then the economy had not r
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