Springville Herald | 1961-07-06 | Page 5 | Local News

In 1939, according to the Tax Foundation, spending for public assistance was $1 billion, bil-lion, of which 51 percent was supplied by the states, 26 percent per-cent by local government, and 23 percent by the federal government. gov-ernment. In 1959 the total was $3.7 billion of which 36 percent per-cent came from the states, 12 percent from local government and 52 percent from the federal feder-al government.