Mother's Assistance.
[Welfare]. Mothers’ Assistance Campaign. Mother’s Assistance. Pittsburgh: Mothers’ Assistance Campaign, n.d.
Single leaf, folded twice; front fold illustrated; fine.
A relic from the 1930s that advocated state and county monetary assistance through the Mothers’ Assistance Fund for widowed mothers. Established in 1913, “for the purposes of keeping fatherless children in their own homes, with their own mother,” the Mother’s Assistance Fund allocated monthly allowances to needy mother, whose husbands either had died or were afflicted with incurable mental illness. The Mother’s Assistance Fund, for which women needed to apply to their state or county of residence, circulated this pamphlet as part of a campaign to urge legislators to appropriate additional funding:
2,497 mothers, entitled to Mothers’ Assistance under terms of the law, are on the waiting list because the appropriation is inadequate.
The Mother’s Assistance Fund needs an appropriation of #4,115,938 for 1931-1933 in order to give aid to these 2,497 waiting mothers.
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