Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only four states spent any of their money on relief. In 1932 ten states took part. Today 31 states are contributing money from their treasuries. In 1933 when the Federal Government paid 60% of the relief bill, the states spent $107,000,000 for the same purpose. In the first half of 1934, when the Federal Government assumed 70% of the relief burden, the states spent $113,000,000-more in six months than in all the previous twelve. In 1931, 88% of state relief expenditures were provided by general revenues. In the first half of 1934 the general revenue...
Taxes & Taxes. The 34 Governors who take office in January were, last week, all asking themselves one question: "Where are our bigger relief funds coming from in 1935?" Traditional source of local taxation is real estate. But real estate almost everywhere is heaped high with taxes necessitated by the bond issues of the logo's. Hence the trend of state taxation is to provide relief for property owners. In Ohio and Florida voters have forced reductions in the real estate tax rate. New revenue, therefore, must come from other sources. Most popular alter native nearly everywhere is the graduated...
...State debt (biggest of any state), but with the State credit boastfully asserted to be better than that of the U. S. Government, Governor Lehman may well be the envy of his 47 colleagues. But he is not short on State worries. The number of people on relief in New York is around 2,000,000, more people than there are in Connecticut or Kansas, or Florida or Nebraska. In 1935 Governor Lehman will need about $100,000,000 of new taxes to balance his budget, enough money to run half a dozen good sized states...
...Governors to be inaugurated next month - younger than 37-year-old Phil La Follette of Wisconsin, younger than 38-year-old Olin Johnston of South Carolina. Last week Governor-elect Allred was in Washington trying to find out how much money Texas would have to raise for relief on top of its expected $14,000,000 deficit...
Nebraska's Roy L. Cochran, on his way to the Governorship, was last week also on his way to Washington to consult about relief. Reserved, tall, grey, portly, he tackles his problems like the engineer that he is and his relief problem is not like that of most Governors. His State has no debt whatever; its pay-as-you-go policy has paid for all State highways and for the $10,000,000 State Capitol. Nebraska's freedom from debt is due, however, to statutory restrictions on the issue of bonds. Nebraska has had to leave her problems...