Word: doles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Continuation, on an enlarged scale, of the present system, a mixture of dole and work relief that now costs about $142,000,000 a month...
...nation-wide setup not unlike Upton Sinclair's EPIC, whereunder the unemployed would make commodities for consumption by the unemployed. Such a program would probably be cheaper than the dole-and-relief work but it has two main disadvantages: a) economically it might tend to throw some workers in private enterprise out of their jobs; b) politically it would arouse a storm of conservative opposition from manufacturers who feel the pinch of direct government competition...
...Renewal of a scheme similar to last year's CWA, an expensive form of relief, costing about twice as much as the dole...
...advisers have agreed that, for three good reasons, housing is a keystone to Recovery. These reasons were: 1) construction, as the balance wheel of industry, creates a market for thousands of types of manufactured goods; 2) a widespread public housing program, while more expensive than the dole, has the advantage of yielding in the form of public improvements some concrete return on the Government's money; 3) the poor of city and country have a real need for better housing...
...President on the Dole: "Some people try to tell me that we must make up our minds that for the future we shall permanently have millions of unemployed just as other countries have had them for over a decade. As for this country, I stand or fall by my refusal to accept as a necessary condition of our future a permanent army of unemployed..... I do not want to think that it is the destiny of any American to remain permanently on relief rolls...