Evening star., 1932-08-30
Expenditures by Public and
Private Agencies Lower
Than May, However.
REPORTS ARE RECEIVED
FROM IL GROUPS HERE
Survey of Entire Country Shows
One Per Cent Reduction
From May Total.

Relief expenditures by public and
private agencies in the National CAPITAL
during June were 100 per cent greater
than in the same month last year. but
were II per cent less than in May. ac-
cording to reports received by the Chill
drens Bureau of the Department of
Labor.
The reports show that relief expendi-
lures in 126 cities in the United States
were 81 per cent greater during June
this year than in June last year, and
only per cent below the total for Nav
Of this year.
The bureau received reports from IL
agencies or divisions of departments
administering relief In the National
Capital These reports showed that in
washington expenditures for outright
and wage relief in June, 1881, totaled
$32, ,339; in May of this year, S72,595,
and in June Of this year, $64, ,703.
s22,S6O.2S5 In June.
Reports from 991 agencies in the 12e
cities of $4,000 or larger population
placed total relief expenditures for June
at $22 ,960,285. as compared with S12,-
O30,58l In June of last year. Only one
third OF the relief expenditures in June
last year were in the form of general re-
lief administered by public agencies,
while nearly half of the expenditures
for relief in June of this year were pub
licly administered
The decrease in relief expenditures
from May to June is seasonal. The de-
crease of only l per cent this year is
exceptional. Last year the decrease
amounted to per cent, the bureau re-
ported, showing a decided checking in
the seasonal decline in relief work.
The number Of families to which d.
rect relief was extended in June, as
reported by TAT agencies, totaled 793,-
1859, as compared with 1855 in May.
The average grant per family, however,
increased from $2049 In May to $20.89
in June
Compared with the figures for June.
1881, the expenditures for last June
chow that general relief administered
by public departments increased I'll
per cent; veterans relief increased 159
per cent; relief administered by nom
sectarian family societies increased Ill
per cent, and relief administered by
emergency committees increased 4s2
per cent. Many family societies re-
ported to the bureau that they have
been assuming responsibility for ad-
lnstering relief grants from the public
treasury.
Report 20 Per Cent Cuts.
A number Of cities reported decreases
OF 20 per cent or more in relief ex-
penditures from May to June, the
largest relative decreases being shown
for Tulsa, San Antonio, Birmingham.
Kenosha, Pontiac, Buffalo, Niagara
Falls, Ell Paso and Louisville.
These decreases, however, were nearly
counterbalanced by increases in other
localities. Among the cities which re-
ported increases Of 20 per cent or more
Tor relief expenditures IN June, as COM
pared with May. were Lawrence San
Diego, Cincinnati, Newton, New Rochelle.
Evansville, Flint and Harrisburg.
Meals and nights lodgings provided
TO homeless and transient persons de-
creased per cent and 10 per cent.
respectively, from May to June of this
year. The total of 872 800 meals served
IN June, however, represented an in
crease OF l18 per cent over the same
month last year. The number of
nights lodgings furnished last June
totaled 279,467, an increase of rs per
SeAV oFcA GIle HUMBER PROVIDED In the
same month last year
In both forms of service" the bu-
reau announced 'thc percentage of
decrease from May to June this year
showed a definite leSsening in the sharp
seasonal decline which began in March"
Wage Relief Drop Small
The sharp drop in wage relief. which
had continued from March through
May, was checked in June, the re-
ports showing the drop from May to
June in this type of relief amounted
to only per cent, as compared with
a decrease of Is per cent from April to
May.
General outright relief was approxi-
mately the same in May and June.
Total amounts expended for special
allowances, such as mothers aid, o!5-
age relief and aid for the blind, have
recently shown a slight tendency to-
ward decline for the first time during a
period OF more than three years, it was
reported.
The most significant changes in out
right relief expenditures for other than
special allowances, from May to June,
were drop of 18 per cent in Salvation
Army expenditures and an increase of
8 pei cent in relief administered by
emergency committees.
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