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29 U.S. Code § 1. Design and duties of bureau generally
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The general design and duties of the Bureau of Labor Statistics shall be to
acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information
on subjects connected with labor, in the most general and comprehensive
sense of that word, and especially upon its relation to capital, the hours of
labor, the earnings of laboring men and women, and the means of promoting
their material, social, intellectual, and moral prosperity.
(June 13, 1888, ch. 389, § 1, 25 Stat. 182; Feb. 14, 1903, ch. 552, § 4, 32
Stat. 826; Mar. 18, 1904, ch. 716, 33 Stat. 136; Mar. 4, 1913, ch. 141, § 3,
37 Stat. 737.)

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