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Show Son Juon Welfare Rolls iho Kio&esf San Juan fount., with 40. per r-friit of its population popula-tion niccivintf public assistance, as-sistance, has tho highest percent ;tye of welfare recipients re-cipients in the state. A report of the State Family Services Division shows that as of January, 1!)71, .",,813 or 40.1 per cent of San Juan's population of O.fiOG by the 1070 census cens-us was receiving public assistance. Second on the list, also because of a large percentage per-centage of Indian residents, resi-dents, is Uintah county, where 1,014 or eieht per cent of the county's 12.CS 1 population, are on welfare. Carbon County, with 1, 018 or 0.7 per cent of its population of 15,047, alul Emery County, with 340 or 0.0 per cent of its population pop-ulation of 5,137 persons on welfare, both exceed Salt Lake County with 20, 013 or 5.8 per cent of iU population of 1,059,273 on welfare. Having a lower percentage percent-age on Welfare than the state average of 5.2 per cent on welfare are Sanpete San-pete with 504 or 5.1 per cent of its 10,970 on welfare; wel-fare; Sevier with 429 or 4.2 per cent of its 10,103 on welfare and Grand with 275 or 4.1 per cent of its 0,088 persons on welfare. |