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Show Utah Foundation Reports j On State Welfare A total of 215 persons were receiving re-ceiving public assistance in Iron County during June. 1W2, according accord-ing to a report by Utah Foundation, Founda-tion, the private governmental research organization. The number num-ber of persons on the welfare rolls was equal to 1.95' of the county's total population. The proportion of Utah's population pop-ulation receiving assistance varies var-ies from fewer than one percent in Grand County to over nine and one-half per cent in adjoining San Juan County. This is one of the many Interesting items featured fea-tured in Utah Foundation's forthcoming forth-coming publication, "Statistical, Abstract of Government in Utah V.m Edition." The Foundation's analysis shows that there were 3),)K9 persons per-sons on Utah's public assistance rolls in June. l!Hi2. This was equal to 3.11 J of the state's total to-tal population. The number of persons receiving public welfare this year was down by nearly " " 750 from 1961. but was up by over l.)0 from the 1960 total. According to the abstract tables. ta-bles. Utah's public welfare rolls reached a low point of 24,942 In 1953 but rose throughout most of the remaining part of the 1930 decade. As observed by Foundation analysts, an-alysts, there is a wide variance among Utah's 20 counties in the proportion of their population on public assistance. San Juan, with its large Indian population, had the highest percentage of welfare recipients In the state. Other Southern Utah counties with over 6'c of their population on welfare wel-fare rolls are Emery (8.5), Sanpete San-pete .n), Garfield (6-1), and Piute (6.0). Most of the counties in the northern part of the state rank low in the proportion of welfare recipients. Box Elder (1.4), Davis Da-vis (1.4). Cache (1.7), Rich (1.6 ), and Morgan (1.1) counties coun-ties all have fewer than 2 of their populations on the welfare rolls. Other counties having welfare wel-fare recipients under 2'. are Iron (1.9). Uintah (1.6), Daggett Dag-gett (1.0), and Grand (0.8). |
