SOMETHING LIKE SOCIAL SECURITY!
Received Wednesday, 7 p.ifl. NEW YORK, May 19. A 35-years-old t'ather on city lelief, who appeared in the Dbmfestis Rfelatibn^ Court today to explain why one of his children was' not at school, revealed that' thfc Depaftnieiit of Wfelf&re' liad provided his family with ah hotel suite cost ing 315 doilars moritkly. It is just ofL' Fifth Avenue and has a maid ^ervieo. He alsd received &a avdragb df 128 doilars wbfekly from the1 Qepartifl&ht for food, clothing and laundry for him self, wife and five children. They tvfe'ft installed in the hotel suite last Novemlier and had been there evef sinbe. A Welfare Department spoltesihan said that beeause df the virtual impbasibility of obtaining accommodation, at a lower or medium cost, the Ho'ufling Dex>artment had several similar cases. The only altdrnatiVe would bedo break up families and lodge the parents and children in separte shelters.
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 May 1947, Page 5
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