Excerpt from The Minimum Cost of Living: A Study of Families of Limited, Income in New York City
One of the chief aims of an organization like the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor is to help others to help themselves. It is frequently more helpful to teach a given family how its income can be made to more nearly meet its needs than to supplement their income with relief. This is always the case if their income is sufficient when wisely used to meet their actual necessities although it may not be sufficient even for them unless used wisely with much planning. Perhaps one of the most essential factors in thrift in family expenditures is careful planning. Careful planning inevitably means a systematic record of expenditures. Making this record in itself is of the greatest use in developing thrift and lays a firm foundation for profiting from errors in thrift -from hasty poor judgments in expenditures. No corrective is more effective than a record of an unwise expenditure.
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