Statement of Miss Helen Hall, University Settlement, Philadelphia, Pa.
Statement
By: Helen Hall
Date: January 1933
Source: Statement of Miss Helen Hall, University Settlement, Philadelphia, Pa. Federal Aid for Unemployment Relief: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Manufactures, United States Senate, 72nd Congress, 2d Session, on S. 5125 Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1933, 380–385.
About the Author: The prominent social worker Helen Hall was director of the University Settlement in Philadelphia at the time of the testimony reported below. In 1933 she became the director of the Henry Street Settlement on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Hall became president of the National Federation of Settlements and was a member of the Advisory Council at the Conference on Economic Security. This committee produced the draft that resulted in the Social Security Act of 1935.
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