New York State’s past independent pioneering activities in social legislation, while commendable in many respects…have already produced discriminatory differentials between the cost of doing business in New York and such costs in neighboring States [sic]. We can see no justification for deliberately increasing those differentials at this time by continuance of such pioneering.
Statement by the Merchants Association of New York on New York & national unemployment insurance, quoted in “Merchants Oppose Job Insurance Bills,” New York Times.
Tuesday, April 17, 1934
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