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Family Allowance Act of 1944

protect the rising generation
maintain purchasing power
first universal program
Debate: Universal vs. Targeting
WHY Universal chosen?

Family Allowance office in Charlottetown, P.E.I., the city where the plan was introduced, Photographer: National Film Board, National Archives Neg. no. C45315.





© 1998, Steve Hick.