Item Detail
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22054
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English
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The WPA Versus the Utah Church
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Utah in the Twentieth Century
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Logan, UT
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Utah State University Press
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167-185
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"The 1930s were an especially difficult time in Utah. Coming out of a recession in the 1920s that affected agriculture and mining, the state felt all the impact of the Great Depression. Other scholars have acknowledged that New Deal officials and the LDS Church leadership clashed over the role of the federal government and the church in meeting the needs of the state's residents. Both sides claimed that their own programs best met Utahns' needs. Joseph F. Darowski describes the way that New Deal administrators, especially a former Utahn and Mormon, Dean Brimhall, contracted with sociologist Louis Wirth to show that the church's welfare program was not meeting the needs of its members. Darowski's new evidence amplifies the disagreements between private, church-run programs and federal ones beyond what other researchers have previously discussed." [Editor's abstract]