Humphrey–Hawkins Full Employment Act

Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act
Long title	An Act to translate into practical reality the right of all Americans who are able, willing, and seeking to work to full opportunity for useful paid employment at fair rates of compensation; to assert the responsibility of the Federal Government to use all practicable programs and policies to promote full employment, production, and real income, balanced growth, adequate productivity growth, proper attention to national priorities, and reasonable price stability; to require the President each year to set forth explicit short-term and medium-term economic goals; to achieve a better integration of general and structural economic policies; and to improve the coordination of economic policymaking within the Federal Government.
Nicknames	Humphrey–Hawkins
Enacted by	the 95th United States Congress
Citations
Public law	Pub. L. 95–523
Statutes at Large	92 Stat. 1887
Codification
Acts amended	Employment Act of 1946
Legislative history
	Introduced in the House as H.R. 50 by Augustus F. Hawkins (D–CA) on January 4, 1977; Committee consideration by House Education and Labor, House Rules; Passed the House on March 16, 1978 (257–152); Passed the Senate on October 13, 1978 (70–19) with amendment; House agreed to Senate amendment on October 14, 1978 (56–14 by H.Res. 1446); Signed into law by President Jimmy Carter on October 27, 1978;
Major amendments
	None notable, see end of article

The Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act (known informally as the Humphrey–Hawkins Full Employment Act) is an act of legislation by the United States government.