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Detroit Relief Center, with Children, 1931,
As this shot suggests, the government and groups in the private sector had
to come to the aid especially of children. In 1931, Detroit was one of the
few cities in the country with a public welfare department, but the paucity
of such aid became abundantly clear in the early 1930s as the government
and private agencies were forced to intervene in social welfare on a broad
scale. Source: Detroit Free Press.
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