Sec. 372. Findings and purpose
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Congress finds that denial of employment opportunities to individuals because of their status as unemployed is discriminatory and burdens commerce by— reducing personal consumption and undermining economic stability and growth; squandering human capital essential to the Nation’s economic vibrancy and growth; increasing demands for Federal and State unemployment insurance benefits, reducing trust fund assets, and leading to higher payroll taxes for employers, cuts in benefits for jobless workers, or both; imposing additional burdens on publicly funded health and welfare programs; and depressing income, property, and other tax revenues that the Federal Government, States, and localities rely on to support operations and institutions essential to commerce.
The purposes of this subtitle are— to prohibit employers and employment agencies from disqualifying an individual from employment opportunities because of that individual’s status as unemployed; to prohibit employers and employment agencies from publishing or posting any advertisement or announcement for an employment opportunity that indicates that an individual’s status as unemployed disqualifies that individual for the opportunity; and to eliminate the burdens imposed on commerce due to the exclusion of such individuals from employment.