Standards of Relief - Continued Discussion

Publication Date: April 1915

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Morris D. Waldman

Research Area: Social conditions

Keywords: Poverty; Social Services; Communal Organization

Type: Other

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The author suggests that the standard of relief ought to be efficiency - the standard required for a family to eventually assure rehabilitation and self-support, rather than sufficiency. This specifically with an eye to reaching out to needy but proud families and identifying those with 'pauper blood,' the continuously dependent, so that they can be dealt with as needed separately. There are responses and criticisms of this suggestion, and to the establishment of a standard of relief and its amount, following.

Bulletin of the National Conference of Jewish Charities, 5:9