Word: dolefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excessive is the number of Government plain-clothes snoopers that their cost has been solemnly justified on the ground that it amounts to a dole, helps to keep down unemployment...
Relief. When the sub-committee on relief reported its plank, it was evident how far the 90 tycoons had traveled. Three years ago it would have been hard to find one of them who would not have been ready to denounce the pauperizing effect of the dole.* Yet last week. knowing the dole to be far cheaper than made work, their sub-committee plumped solidly for the dole. But such straightforward language would never do. President Roosevelt feels now about the dole as the tycoons felt three years ago, favors work relief as a means of preserving morale among...
...National Industrial Conference Board last week published its findings on the relative costs of the dole and work relief: country-wide average cost of the dole, $24.83 per case per month; average cost of work relief, $36.56 per case. But there were wide variations between states: In Delaware the dole cost $26.14 and work relief $109.92 per case: in Kentucky the dole cost $10.89, work relief $10.82; in nine states the dole cost more than work relief. Extreme example, Maryland: dole $78.04, work relief...
Inference: a family's expectation of having children increases 35%;* when it goes on the dole. If this 35% increase in the birthrate holds good for the U. S. as a whole, the birthrate of nearly 5,000.000 on relief, instead of being around 17 per 1,000 as it is for the rest of the population, is nearer...
Result: some 414.000 dole babies will be born in 1935 or 108.000 more than would otherwise be expected...