Sentences with phrase «welfare during the depression»

Held was born in Brooklyn and grew up in the urban blight of the East Bronx, the son of a poor Jewish family thrown on to welfare during the depression.

Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1928, he grew up in the East Bronx, the son of a poor Jewish family thrown onto welfare during the depression.

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However, he and his parents suffered severe financial hardship during the Depression, a situation aggravated by his refusal to join the Federal Art Project, which he saw as a form of welfare.

Therefore, we Canadian civil society organizations, who work for public welfare, call on our federal government to revive the powers of the Bank of Canada to provide funding to all levels of government in Canada, largely with interest - free loans, as was done between 1938 and 1974 with very low inflation, enabling our nation to break out of the Great Depression, to shoulder extraordinary responsibilities during World War II, and to prosper while building our infrastructure and highly valued social programs during some thirty post-war years.

During the Great Depression, the Family Society (which subsequently changed its corporate name from Associated Charities to the Family Welfare Society of Ithaca) accepted the role as Ithaca's singular welfare relief agency by distributing food, clothing and financial assistance to the city's neediest families; thereby depleting the majority of the modest endowment it had acquired prior to the Depression.