Monday, Aug. 13, 1934
One Out of Four
Last week United Press set out to collect an important statistic: the number of citizens living in whole or in part on Government money. It mustered the following roll:
Emergency Relief 3,600,000
Emergency Works (roads, etc.) 970,000
Pensioners (veterans, etc.) 918,568
Government Employes 911,234
Public Works Projects 600,000
Civilian Conservation Corps 280,000
Army, Navy & Marines 259,034
Total 7,538,836
On the basis of four persons to a family the Treasury was contributing directly to the support of some 30,000,000 people-- about one person out of four in the U. S.
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