In 1994 three unemployed residents of Tucson sued then-President Bill Clinton, seeking to enforce elements of a law Congress had passed 16 years earlier. The 1978 Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act established a 4% target for the US jobless rate and directed the White House to work in concert with the US Federal Reserve to achieve it. Unemployment was 6% at the time the plaintiffs, who included a Vietnam veteran and two homeless men, filed their suit. But a provision in the original bill allowing job seekers to sue if they couldn’t find work was left out of the final legislation, which ...

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