The Relief Situation

The general trend of relief rolls has been upward from July, 1933, through December, 1934, when approximately 20,000,000 persons were receiving relief. There is little difference in relief rates between rural and urban areas, but by regions relief loads vary with population density. Of all cases, about one-half are on work relief. Unemployment and under-employment, together with the drought and the increasing poverty of the states, are the factors primarily reponsible for the relief situation. The bulk of relief families come from the manual labor group, are larger than the average, and contain more children and other dependents per worker. Four-fifths of the cases, contain-ing more than 7,000,000 workers, are employable. About 900,000 unemployable cases are the objects of special programs being developed

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