VERSITY OF KENTUCKY

3 DHES 5291553 B

Issued October 1937

SOCIAL SECURITY BOARD

Bureau of Research and Statistics, Division of Public Assistance Statistics

CURRENT STATISTICS OF RELIEF 1N RURAL AND TOWN AREAS
for June—July 1937 and for the years 1932—1936

FOREWORD

The rural and town relief series formerly maintained by the Works Progress Administration was
transferred as of July 1, 1937, to the Social Security Board, which is continuing the publication of
Current Statistics of Relief in Rural and Town Areas with this issue. This series was initiated by the
Works Progress Administration in 1936 to provide an indicator of month—to—month changes in the volume
and cost of relief to families in rural and town areas. The series has been carried back to January
1932, and detailed monthly figures for the years 1932—1936 will be available shortly in a publication
of the Works Progress Administration. The rural relief series is complementary to the compilation of
relief statistics for urban areas published monthly by the Social Security Board in Relief in Urban Areas.

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550 550

CWA. Works Program
500 in operation in operation ‘ 500
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450

 

Emergency
400 subsistence payments

 

 

 

 

350

 

 

Special types

300 . of assistance -
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general and veterans I \

 

 

 

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Hal-TRENDS OF OBLlGATIONS INCURRED FOR RURAL AND TOWN RELlEF
Average month, July l935-June I936=l00

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Aggregate Obligations in amounts of general relief, aid to veterans, and
incurred for Cases Decline

8 7 Percent in Sample Areas private assistance (fig. 1). Accompanying this de—

Aggregate obligations incurred1 for four cline was a 6.8 percent decrease in the number of

major forms of relief to cases declined 8.7 percent cases aided. According to reports received from

in rural and town sample areas between June and 1,365 public and private agencies, obligations of

July reflecting a sharp decrease in amounts of $2,446,000 were incurred for 155,000 families and

emergency subsistence payments to farmers under the single persons m July' Obligations incurred ex?

Resettlement Administration and moderate decreases elude Works Program earnings and loans made by the

Resettlement Administration. The index of obliga-

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The term "obligations incurred" as used throughout this ‘ ‘ ur (1 based on the avera e monthl amount
bulletin supersedes the designation "expenditures" which was tlons mc re ’ g y

used in preceding issues or the bulletin. No change has been

made. however. in reporting financial data. of obligations incurred during theyear July 1935—-

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