Reminiscences of Eveline Mabel Richardson Burns : oral history, 1981.

Biographical Note

Economist.

Scope and Contents

Consultant, Social Security Board, 1935; training courses for local administrators; member Federal Advisory Council on Employment; Chair, Benefit Financing Committee; report for National Resources Planning Board, circa 1941; problems and purposes of early unemployment insurance; Wisconsin system vs. federal unemployment insurance; opposition to experience rating; development of old age insurance, 1934.

Subjects

• Burns, Eveline M. (Eveline Mabel), 1900-1985.
• Economists--Interviews.
• Government consultants--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Old age pensions.
• Oral histories.
• Social security--United States.
• Unemployment insurance.
• United States. Social Security Board.
• Women economists--Interviews.

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