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Welfare a la Newburgh
Rollins, William B. | September 16, 1961 issue

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The article discusses efforts of Newburgh City Manager, Joseph McDowell Mitchell's to curb government welfare schemes introduced in Newburgh, New York. It was during one of Newburgh's most severe winters that Mitchell went to work on welfare. He tried to meet a $30,000 snow-removal debt by transferring funds from the Welfare Department. He attempted to reduce the 68 cents-a-day welfare allotment for food, but backed down when faced with the opposition of Clifford P. Tallcott, area director of the New York-State Department of Social Welfare. This was Mitchell's first reversal in Newburgh - a harbinger of many more to come.

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MITCHELL, James Mcdowell; CITY managers; PUBLIC welfare; HEALTH; DEBT; NEWBURGH (N.Y.); NEW York (State); UNITED States
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