be on reliefの例文
- CWA was similar, but did not require workers to be on relief in order to receive a government sponsored job.
- The Act permanently shifted the onus of economic recovery from direct relief assistance to a more nuanced enhanced work relief that was not dependent on enrollees to be on relief for eligibility.
- The former president was quoted in 1957 as saying to then-House Majority Leader John McCormack, " Had it not been for the fact that I was able to sell some property that my brother, sister, and I inherited from our mother, I would practically be on relief, but with the sale of that property I am not financially embarrassed . " The following year, Congress passed the Former Presidents Act, offering a $ 25, 000 yearly pension to each former president, and it is likely that Truman's financial status played a role in the law's enactment.
