Word: subsistance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from living in luxury on the relief rolls, work relief families have been poorly fed, clothed and housed, with income running well below the minimum standards established by the relief authorities; that the average debt of families seeking work relief was $234, and that families must continue to subsist on credit for part of current expenses; that unemployment is disproportionately severe among youths just out of school and older workers over forty; and that most public complaints of relief workers refusing jobs in private industry are not justified by the facts...