<P> Australia was the first country in the world in which full employment in a capitalist society was made official policy by its government . On May 30, 1945, The Australian Labor Party Prime Minister John Curtin and his Employment Minister John Dedman proposed a white paper in the Australian House of Representatives titled Full Employment In Australia, the first time any government apart from totalitarian regimes had unequivocally committed itself to providing work for any person who was willing and able to work . Conditions of full employment lasted in Australia from 1941 to 1975 . This had been preceded by the Harvester Judgment (1907), establishing the basic wage (a living wage); while this earlier case was overturned, it remained influential . </P> <P> The United States is, as a statutory matter, committed to full employment; the government is empowered to effect this goal . The relevant legislation is the Employment Act (1946), initially the "Full Employment Act," later amended in the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act (1978). The 1946 act was passed in the aftermath of World War II, when it was feared that demobilization would result in a depression, as it had following World War I in the Depression of 1920--21, while the 1978 act was passed following the 1973--75 recession and in the midst of continuing high inflation . </P> <P> The law states that full employment is one of four economic goals, in concert with growth in production, price stability, balance of trade, and budget, and that the US shall rely primarily on private enterprise to achieve these goals . Specifically, the Act is committed to an unemployment rate of no more than 3% for persons aged 20 or over, and not more than 4% for persons aged 16 or over (from 1983 onwards), and the Act expressly allows (but does not require) the government to create a "reservoir of public employment" to affect this level of employment . These jobs are required to be in the lower ranges of skill and pay so as to not draw the workforce away from the private sector . </P> <P> However, since the passage of this Act in 1978, the US has, as of 2017, never achieved this level of employment on the national level, though some states have neared it or met it, nor has such a reservoir of public employment been created . </P>

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