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Some observers downplay the influence of the unemployed movement during the New Deal. However, it mobilized considerable support for the Workers’ Unemployment Bill, also known as the Lundeen Bill, named for Rep. Ernest Lundeen (Farmer-Labor Party-Minn.). Economist Paul Douglas (later Senator from Illinois) considered the Lundeen Bill “the most thoroughgoing and adequate proposal ... for taking care of the unemployed.” The New York Times quoted House Speaker Joseph W. Byrnes describing the “mountainous piles of letters with which Congress is being deluged” by supporters of the Lundeen Bill and the Townsend plan, the latter a proposal for generous, universal pensions for the elderly. It was Douglas’ view that pressure from the left had “enabled the administration forces to say to the indifferent and conservatives that unless they accepted the moderate program put forth by the administration, they might later be forced to accept the radical and far-reaching provisions of the Lundeen bill.” Another major focus of the unemployed movement during the Depression was protecting the rights of employees in the New Deal work programs, including organizing actions against cutbacks.
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Planetary scientists have calculated that there are hundreds of billions of Earth-like planets in our galaxy which might support life. […] The ingredients for life are plentiful, and we now know that habitable environments are plentiful," said Associate Professor Lineweaver, from the ANU Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the Research School of Earth Sciences. "However, the universe is not teeming with aliens with human-like intelligence that can build radio telescopes and space ships. Otherwise we would have seen or heard from them.
The ingredients for life are plentiful, and we now know that habitable environments are plentiful," said Associate Professor Lineweaver, from the ANU Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the Research School of Earth Sciences.
"However, the universe is not teeming with aliens with human-like intelligence that can build radio telescopes and space ships. Otherwise we would have seen or heard from them.