Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Unemployment Relief in Pennsylvania: September 1, 1932-August 31, 1934, Second Annual Report of the Executive Director of the State Emergency Relief Board of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania, for instance, in common with most other states, had only an archaic poor re lief System, practically unchanged since the time oi Queen Elizabeth, which too often had grown to be rather an instrument for bolstering local politi cal machines than for serving human needs. And aside from this uncertain, uneven, and inadequate governmental machinery, supported by declining tax revenues, the only means at hand to relieve the distress arising from unemployment was a heterogeneous collection of private relief agen cies and volunteer groups of citizens whose meager and precarious financial resources were limited to ?uctuating and rapidly declining pri vate donations.
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