Show 7 48 Listed On Relief A total of persons were receiving public assistance in Sanpete County during June 1962 according to a report by Utah Foundation the private governmental organ organ- The number of persons persons persons per per- sons on the welfare rolls was equal to approximately per cent of the county's total population The proportion of Utah's population receiving public assistance assistance assistance as as- varies from fram fewer than one per cent in Grand County to over nine and one- one half ball per cent in adjoining San SanJuan SanJuan SanJuan Juan County This is one of the many interesting items J featured in Utah Foundations Foundation's forthcoming publication Statistical Statistical Statistical Sta Abstract of Government Government Government Govern Govern- ment in Utah 1963 Edi Edi- tion The Foundations Foundation's analysis shows that there were r persons on Utah's public assistance assistance assistance as as- rolls in June 1962 This was equal to per percent percent percent cent of the states state's total lation The number of pers persons ns receiving public welfare this year was down by nearly from 1961 but was up by over 1800 from the 1960 total According to the Abstract t tables Utah's public welfare rolls reached a low point of in 1953 but rose throughout most of the remaining remaining remaining re re- re- re part of the 1950 decade dec dec- ade As observed by Foundation analysts there is a wide variance variance variance var var- among Utah's 29 counties counties counties coun coun- ties in the proportion of their population on public assist assist- ance San Juan County with its large Indian Indian- population had the highest percentage of welfare recipients in the state Other southern Utah counties with over six per cent of their population on welfare rolls are arc Emery 84 per cent Garfield Garfield Garfield Gar- Gar field 61 per cent and Piute 60 per cent Most of the counties in the northern part of the state rank low in the proportion of welfare recipients Box Elder Elder Elder El El- der 14 per cent Davis 14 per cent Cache 17 per cent Rich 16 per cent and Morgan Morgan Morgan Mor Mor- gan 11 per cent Counties all have fewer than two per cent of their populations on the welfare rolls Other counties having welfare recipients under under under un un- un- un der two per cent are Iron 19 per cent Uintah 16 per percent percent percent cent Daggett 10 per cent and Grand 08 per cent |