Report on Old Age Relief, 1915 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Report on Old Age Relief, 1915 The report was prepared by Dr. E. H. Downey, of this department, an experienced investigator of ability. It presents the arguments for old age relief seriously and conservatively. By the Commission, C.H. Crownhart, J.D. Beck, F.M. Wilcox, Commissioners. I. The Problem Of Old Age Dependence The conditions of modern life have set the problem of old age in a new light. The aged, indeed, have been always with us and the younger generation has always been charged with their support. But conditions have so altered that former methods of dealing withpoverty in old age are no longer adequate. Five principal causes have operated to produce this result:1. Modern industry has created a great and growing class of wage workers, dependent upon their daily toil for their daily bread. Even in Wisconsin, still largely an agricultural state, some 40 percent of the population live by the sale of their labor. The wage worker ordinarily has no other source of regular income but his wages. When wages cease, whether from inability to work or from inability to find a job, he is presently face to face with destitution. It is this fact which has led most industrial nations to establish comprehensive schemes of workmens compensation, sickness insurance, unemployment insurance, old age pensions, mothers pensions all designed to meet the various contingencies which deprive wage earning families of the means of livelihood. And of these contingencies none is more common or more serious than the disabilities of old age.2. The pace at which modern industry is carried on has shortened the effective working life of the industrial population. It is not simply that excessive speed wears out the It is impossible to state accurately the number of wage earners or the number of their dependents, the figures are not given in the census. The estimate in the text is based upon all available -data which show that the number of wage workers in this state, can not be much less than 350, 000. The whole humber of persons gainfully employed was reported as 892, 000 in the census of 1910. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.