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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... districts of the different counties , constitutes a large and important factor . This class of de- pendents is supported almost entirely by taxation , and as such , its consideration is of prime importance . For the purpose of studying ...
... districts of the different counties , constitutes a large and important factor . This class of de- pendents is supported almost entirely by taxation , and as such , its consideration is of prime importance . For the purpose of studying ...
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... districts in all parts of the State . Some of the largest institutions canvassed were : the Philadelphia Almshouse ... District of Luzerne County where 205 and 225 inmates were questioned respec- tively . In approximately á dozen other ...
... districts in all parts of the State . Some of the largest institutions canvassed were : the Philadelphia Almshouse ... District of Luzerne County where 205 and 225 inmates were questioned respec- tively . In approximately á dozen other ...
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... District of Columbia . The story follows : " One day I met an inmate of the Home and during our conversation he informed me that a feeling of discontent pervaded the whole place , that but few were satisfied . I remarked that I had ...
... District of Columbia . The story follows : " One day I met an inmate of the Home and during our conversation he informed me that a feeling of discontent pervaded the whole place , that but few were satisfied . I remarked that I had ...
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... this group is much higher than among the foreign born in the general popula- tion of the State . Only 33.6 per cent . are naturalized in the latter group . gated in 58 different almshouses and poor districts in all 25.
... this group is much higher than among the foreign born in the general popula- tion of the State . Only 33.6 per cent . are naturalized in the latter group . gated in 58 different almshouses and poor districts in all 25.
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... districts in all parts of the State . Some of the largest institutions canvassed were : the Philadelphia Almshouse ... District of Luzerne County where 205 and 225 inmates were questioned respec- tively . In approximately a dozen other ...
... districts in all parts of the State . Some of the largest institutions canvassed were : the Philadelphia Almshouse ... District of Luzerne County where 205 and 225 inmates were questioned respec- tively . In approximately a dozen other ...
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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 cent claimed Commission compulsory contributions County Almshouse County Home court dependents disability earning employers employes established exceed expenditures expenses foreign born given granted incapacitated income industrial inmates institutions insured person invalidity labor Lackawanna County less living Male ment month monthly non-contributory Northumberland County Number Investigated number of pensioners occupation old age insurance old age pension one-half outdoor relief paid pany pauper payment Pennsylvania pension fund pension system percentage period Philadelphia Philadelphia County Pittsburgh Police Poorhouse population premiums Public Charities Railroad Company receive regular residing Retirement Fund salary school directors Scranton sickness sion Strawbridge & Clothier superannuation Susquehanna County TABLE NUMBER teachers tion total number wage-earners wages week widow women workers
Popular passages
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 220 - 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 194 - 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 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 222 - We need measures which shall increase individual responsibility rather than diminish it; measures which shall give us more self-reliance and less reliance on society as a whole. We cannot afford to countenance a system of morals or law which justifies the individual in looking to the community rather than to himself for support in age or infirmity.
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 33 - State, financially and otherwise, to inquire and examine into their methods of instruction, the government and management of their inmates, the official conduct of trustees, directors, and other officers and employes 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 208 - 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 208 - 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 7 - The sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary...