Word: afdc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five main categories of assistance-Old Age Assistance (OAA), Aid For Dependent Children (AFDC), Medicaid, and General Relief-AFDC has been growing the fastest in recent years. Although there are many families with fathers living at home on AFDC, it is still a splintering force in families. The largest segment of the welfare budget is taken up with Medicaid, AFDC and Old Age Assistance...
...program in Massachusetts which has helped people on AFDC gain options is a job-training program, started in '68, called WIN. It is 75 per cent federally financed and currently enrolls 2000 unemployed fathers. Training programs such as WIN are positive indicators that the government is beginning to attack some of the roots of poverty, not just the symptoms...
...AFDC, the typical applicant stays on the rolls for only 23 months, according to HEW figures, though four out of ten return a second time. Moreover, AFDC families are not all large. Their average is four persons, compared with 4.2 in the general population. In two-thirds of the welfare families, all the children had the same parents; an estimated 31% of all children getting aid were born illegitimately...
Even when some of the myths are cleared away, however, the fact remains that AFDC is at the heart of the problem. The crisis in welfare
...month for everything. I get three AFDC checks, two for $125 and the other for the rest. First thing I buy is food stamps. When the next check comes, I pay the rent right away. The laundry allowance is $7.70 a month. With seven kids, I spend close to that in a week. I have a phone. It's not allowed in the budget, but it's a necessity-one of my children had heart surgery, another is retarded. When you have to take the kids to the doctor, you have to go to the welfare office...