HIGHER FOOD PRICES
HUNGRY PARENTS IN NEW YORK
Talk about price control down on New York's Lower East Side is not academic. It expresses a plaintive wish among parents that something could be done to block the inflationary price rises on food, says the Christian Science Monitor.
Even as the nation appeared ready to toss off most price controls —except perhaps those on rents —many parents in this low-income area were going hungry so their children could eat.
Settlement workers reported somo children have insufficient food. A city-wide survey showed that the shortage of milk is acute, and that it is made even more drastic by the high price of 19 to 22 cents a quart. How to secure warm clothing and shoes for growing children, how to get by, themselves, now that cold weather is near, perplexes parents in this area. Fortunately, the rent remains the same, but landlords are not eager to exterminate pests and paint up shabby rooms.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 14255, 2 January 1947, Page 4
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