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The Kansas Emergency Relief Committee was created in July 1932 to obtain and administer federal emergency loans made available to states through Herbert Hoover's Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932. President Franklin Roosevelt expanded on this act with the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) in 1933, leading the Kansas committee to change its name to the Kansas Emergency Relief Committee (KERC). Under the direction of Kansas's new governor, Alf Landon, the KERC managed direct and work relief programs in Kansas including emergency education, transient relief, rural rehabilitation, drought relief, and a slew of public works projects including the construction of farm ponds and lakes, and the renovation and construction of public buildings, roads, and quarries. This bulletin contains a report on county poor farms and examines their social and economic cost. In 1934, 77 out of the 105 Kansas counties had a county poor farm for the aged and ill. John Stutz was executive director of the KERC.
Creator: Kansas Emergency Relief Committee
Date: October 01, 1935
Item Number: 226306
Call Number: S.P. 361 K13ebm
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 226306
Built Environment - Areas of Significance - Health/Medicine
Built Environment - Areas of Significance - Social History
Built Environment - Function - Health Care - Poor farm
Collections - Library
Community Life - Community services - Welfare - Welfare facilities - Poor farms
Date - 1930s - 1935
Government and Politics - State Government - State agencies and programs - Agencies - Kansas Emergency Relief Committee
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Bulletin
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Record, Government
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Report
People - Notable Kansans - Stutz, John Godfrey, 1893-1995
Thematic Time Period - Great Depression and Dust Bowl, 1929 - 1941
Type of Material - Printed materials - Bulletins
Type of Material - Printed materials - Government publications - Bulletins
Type of Material - Printed materials - Government publications - Reports
Type of Material - Printed materials - Reports
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