Report of the Pennsylvania Commission on Old Age Pensions: March, 1919J.L.L. Kuhn, Printer to the commonwealth, 1919 - 294 pages |
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age of 60 allowance amount annual annuity annum Armstrong County average benefits Berks County Board of Public board of school Bradford County bushels capita cost Carbon County cent claimed Commission commissioners compulsory contributions County Almshouse County Home court dependent disability employers employes established exceed expenditures expenses firemen foreign born given Not given granted incapacitated income industrial inmates institutions insured person invalidity labor Lackawanna County less Male ment month monthly non-contributory Northampton County Northumberland County Number Investigated number of pensioners occupation old age insurance old age pensions one-half outdoor relief paid pany paupers payment Pennsylvania pension fund pension system percentage period Philadelphia Philadelphia County Pittsburgh Poorhouse population premiums Public Charities Railroad Company receive regular residing Retirement Fund salary Scranton sickness sion superannuation Susquehanna County TABLE NUMBER teachers tion total number wages week weekly widow women workers
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Page 34 - State receiving State aid, and ascertain whether the moneys appropriated for their aid are or have been economically and judiciously expended ; whether the objects of the several institutions are accomplished ; whether the laws in relation to them are fully complied with...
Page 204 - As long as you have taxes upon commodities which are consumed practically by every family in the country, there is no such thing as a non-contributory scheme. If you tax tea and coffee, and partly sugar, beer, and tobacco, you hit everybody one way or another.
Page 178 - A fraternal beneficiary association is hereby declared to be a corporation, society or voluntary association, formed or organized and carried on for the sole benefit of its members and their beneficiaries, and not for profit. Each association shall have a lodge system, with ritualistic form of work and representative form of government...
Page 208 - A non-contributory pension system would take away, in part, the filial obligation for the support of aged parents, which is a main bond of family solidarity. It would strike at one of the forces that have created the self-supporting, self-respecting American family. The impairment of family solidarity is one of the most serious consequences to be apprehended from an' experiment with non-contributory pensions.
Page 33 - ... the condition of the buildings, grounds, and other property connected therewith, and into all other matters pertaining to their usefulness and good management; and for these purposes they shall have free access to the grounds, buildings, and all books and papers relating to...
Page 35 - ... complete report of all their doings during the year preceding, stating fully in detail all expenses incurred, all officers and agents employed, with a report of the General Agent and Secretary, embracing all the respective proceedings and expenses during the year, and showing the actual condition of all charitable and correctional institutions within the State with such suggestions as the Board may deem necessary and pertinent...
Page 192 - It is notorious that the insatiable factory wears out its workers with great rapidity. As it scraps machinery so it scraps human beings. The young, the vigorous, the adaptable, the supple of limb, the alert of mind, are in demand.
Page 33 - ... of the same ; the condition of the buildings, grounds, and other property connected therewith, and into all other matters pertaining to their usefulness and good management...
Page 192 - In business and in the professions maturity of judgement and ripened experience offset, to some extent, the disadvantage of old age; but in the factory and on the railway, with spade and pick, at the spindle, at the steel converters there are no offsets. Middle age is old age, and the worn-out worker, if he has no children and if he has no savings, becomes an item in the aggregate of the unemployed. The veteran of industry who is crowded out by changes in processes and the use of new machinery is...
Page 3 - The sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary...