APPRAISING THE SOCIAL SECURITY PROGRAM Volume 202: the Annals of the American Academy of Politcal and Social Science by Carter, Isabel Gordon (editor) - 1939

Philadelphia: [Joint Committee on Research of the Community Council of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania School of Social Work], 1935. First Edition. Slim octavo (20.5cm); original stapled wrappers; 37,[3]pp. Light dust-soil to wrappers, some oxidation to staples, with foxing along lower edge of front wrapper; contents clean; Very Good+. A substantial study on the health and welfare of Pennsylvania children five years into the Great Depression. Compiled by the Joint Committee on Research of the Community Council of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania School of Social Work, headed by Isabel Gordon Carter, its assistant director of research, the study focusses on dependend and delinquent children, the adequacy of available relief, direct home relief, child placement by poor directors, fatherless children, truancy, children in foster care, child health and communicable diseases, children of working age, and employment statistics. Scarce; OCLC notes 4 holdings (NYPL, LC, Bryn Mawr, Temple).