 The Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act of 1978 authorized the government to create a "reservoir of public employment" in case private enterprise does not provide sufficient jobs.These jobs are required to be in the lower ranges of skill and pay so as to not draw the workforce away from the private sector.However, the act did not establish such a reservoir (it only "authorized" it), and no such program has been implemented in the United States, even though the unemployment rate has generally been above the rate (3%) targeted by the act.