- Headline
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Children Bearing Real Brunt Of Depression
- Publication Date
- Friday, February 16, 1934
- Historical Event
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“Repatriation” of Mexican Americans and Mexican nationals continues
This database includes 249 articles about this event - Article Type
- Page Section and Number
- 6
- Author/Byline
- William E. Warne (AP Staff Writer)
- Article Text
- WASHINGTON —(AP)—Children and single men and women are bearing the brunt of the depression in California, a report by Corrington Gill, emergency relief statistician, revealed today.
Children under tht age of sixteen made up approximately thirty-four per cent of the total of persons in families when the recent unemployment relief census was taken. Gill based his report on the census. The 1930 census of population, however, showed children of these ages made up only twenty-four per cent of the total population.
Altogether there were 124,000 children on relief rolls in California during October 1933, and fully one-third of them were of pre-school age.
Non-family, or single persons, made up twenty-two per cent of those on relief rolls, while the 1930 census revealed this group constituted only fifteen per cent of the total of the state's population. The census revealed there was a total of 375,854 persons being cared for out of public funds in the state.
The relief census did not Include transients. It is possible, however, that the fact that single persons appeared in greater proportion on relief rolls than their ratio to the entire population, could be traced to the drifting of the unattached to the state from colder climates in previous years. The flood of itinerants into California, a movement which began early in the depression, may have contained a number who found work for a time, settled down and then later became unemployed.
There were a total of 10,111 Mexican families on California relief rolls. This number represented about twenty per cent of all Mexican families in the United States on relief rolls. That the Mexicans in California have fared better than those in other states of the union was indicated by the fact that in 1930, California had twenty-six per cent of the Mexican population. The voluntary repatriation of thousands of indigent Mexicans from Southern California in recent months, however, probably accounted for at least part of the difference.
The difficulties encountered by leads of large families in providing necessities for their charges undoubtedly increased the proportion of needy children in comparison with other population age groups.
There were 208 families of twelve or more persons on relief rolls, 291 eleven person families, 630 ten person families, 1212 nine, person families and 2254 eight person families. Mexican families made up from thirty-three to forty-four per cent of those numbers.
The largest number of persons on relief rolls from any one age group was 68,022 from the group between the ages of six and thirteen. The second largest was 55,441, made up of persons between forty-five and fifty-four years. - History Unfolded Contributor
- Patricia P.
- Location of Research
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Learn More about this Historical Event: “Repatriation” of Mexican Americans and Mexican nationals continues
- Anthony Acevedo, a Mexican-American deportee, and US Army medic held POW at Berga (Americans and the Holocaust online exhibition)
- America’s Forgotten History of Mexican-American ‘Repatriation’ (NPR interview with Francisco Balderrama)
- Mexican Americans and Repatriation (Texas State Historical Association)
- Aqui Estamos y No Nos Vamos / Fighting Mexican Removal Since the 1930s (Boyle Heights Museum)
- INS Records for 1930s Mexican Repatriation (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services)
- Texas’ Mass Mexican Deportation (Think; KERA interview with Melita M. Garza)
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