TOPICS FOR INVESTIGATION AND REPORT
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1. Make a study of the occupational groups in your locality for the purpose of discovering which of these groups receive the lowest wages. Can you connect the fact that they receive low wages with their numerical strength?
2. Is the supply of unskilled labor in your community affected by European immigration? If so, attempt to trace the relation of this immigration to low wages in your community.
3. What classes of workmen receive the highest wages in your locality? What is the relation of these high wages to the restricted number of this type of workman?
4. Study the methods by means of which land in your locality is utilized. In what ways, if in any, could various plots be made to employ more laborers?
5. By what means could the supply of capital in your locality be increased? In what ways might this increased supply of capital be utilized? To what extent would the utilization of this increased supply of capital justify the employment of additional laborers?
6. Do you believe that your community needs more entrepreneurs? What reason have you for believing that a training school for the technical professions would increase the productivity of your community?
7. Write to the Bureau of Education in your state for data relative to the status of vocational education in your commonwealth.
8. Interview one or more officials of a bank in your community for the purpose of learning of the ways in which banks encourage thrift.
9. Write to the Bureau of Labor Statistics in your state for information relative to the status of public employment bureaus in your commonwealth.