Title 15, Commerce and TradeRelease 119-110

§3114 Regional and Structural Employment Policies and Programs

Title 15 › CHAPTER 58 — FULL EMPLOYMENT AND BALANCED GROWTH › SUBCHAPTER I — STRUCTURAL ECONOMIC POLICIES AND PROGRAMS INCLUDING TREATMENT OF RESOURCE RESTRAINTS › § 3114

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The President must recommend laws to Congress when needed to create regional and structural job programs. The goal is to help places that have high unemployment. The President must try to get private companies to build plants and hire workers in depressed towns and regions, and to help small businesses grow where possible. Any regional job plan must explain how federal tax, spending (including government buying), defense, transportation, energy, natural resources, and job policies have pushed people, jobs, and businesses out of long‑troubled areas, and must offer fixes for federal policies that hurt those areas.

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Title 15, §3114

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(a)Recommendation of legislation

To the extent deemed appropriate by the President in fulfillment of the purposes of section 3111 of this title, the President shall recommend legislation to the Congress if necessary, regional and structural employment policies and programs.

(b)Private sector production and employment; effect of Federal policies

In formulating the regional components of any such programs, the President shall encourage to the extent the President deems necessary, new private sector production and employment to locate within depressed localities and regions with substantial unemployment and to aid in stabilizing their economic base. To the extent feasible, such policies and programs shall foster the establishment and growth of smaller businesses in such localities and regions. Any regional employment proposal of the President shall also include an analysis of the extent to which Federal tax, expenditure (including procurement of goods and services), defense, transportation, energy, natural resources and employment policies have influenced the movement of people, jobs, and small and larger business and industries from chronic high unemployment regions and areas, and proposals designed to correct Federal policies that have an adverse economic impact upon such regions and areas.

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15 U.S.C. § 3114

Title 15, Commerce and Trade

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110