Oral history interview with Paul Raushenbush and Elizabeth Brandeis Raushenbush, 1966.

Biographical Note

Economists; interviewees were married.

Scope and Contents

Personal backgrounds; teaching at University of Wisconsin from early 1920s; Wisconsin's Unemployment Act and the American Federation of Labor; Louis Brandeis' work in unemployment; Wagner-Lewis bill, 1933-34; administration of Wisconsin's State Unemployment Compensation; development of Social Security and federal unemployment bills; other work in unemployment and social security; recollections of Harold Groves, John R Commons, Frances Perkins, Arthur Altmeyer, and others.

Subjects

• Corning, Peter A., 1935- interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Economists--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Raushenbush, Elizabeth Brandeis, interviewee.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ive
• Raushenbush, Elizabeth Brandeis--Interviews.
• Raushenbush, Paul A. (Paul Arthur), 1898-1980--Interviews.
• Social security--Law and legislation.
• Social security--United States.
• Social security--Wisconsin.
• Unemployment insurance.
• United States--Economic policy--1933-1945.
• United States. Social Security Administration.