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WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION

Rural Research Section,

Issued September 1937

Division of Social Research

CURRENT STATISTICS OF RELIEF IN RURAL AND TOWN
for May-June 1937 and for the Years 1932-1936

Univ. of Ky. Libraries

Che rural and town relief series was transferred as of July l to the Social Security Board,
publish subsequent issues of ”Current Statistics of Relief in Rural and Town Areas.” This
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 a similar collection of relief statistics for large cities compiled by the Social Security Board.

AREAS

FOREWORD

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Hal-TRENDS OF EXPENDITURES FOR RURAL AND TOWN RELIEF

AF— 2373, MBA.

Trend of Aggregate Relief
Expenditures in Sample Areas,
January I936—June l937

The index of aggregate expenditures for
four major types of relief in rural and town sample
areas in January 1930‘, based on the average monthly
amount expended during the year July lQBS—June 1936,
was 83.1. Following a slight rise in February l935,
,he index of aggregate expenditures declined stead-

...ily through June 1936 when the index stood at 65.5.

During this period amounts expended for old age

' isiss 0—37 ‘.
v JUE— .18 3 14%

assistance, blind assistance, and aid to dependent
children rose steadily, but these increases only
partially offset declines in expenditures for public
general and veterans' assistance, Resettlement emer~
The decline

gency grants, and private assistance.

in general public assistance, which constituted
slightly more than half of the aggregate expenditures
during the first 6 months of 1936, followed the
cessation of the F.E.R.A. activities and the expan-
sion of the W.P.A. Part of the decrease in expend—

itures for this type of assistance was accounted