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Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development History
Signing the 1932 Unemployment Compensation Law


January 28, 1932: 
Governor Philip LaFollette signs the nation's first unemployment compensation law.
Also pictured in back, left to right, are: Henry Oltl, President, Wisconsin Federation of Labor;
Elizabeth Brandeis; Paul Raushenbush; John R. Commons; Henry Huber; 
Lt. Governor Harold Groves; and Assemblyman Robert Nixon.

 
Updated September 13, 2002
Division of Administrative Services
Content Contact: Jerry French


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