Word: afdc
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Fully three quarters of America's elderly poor are women. Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), the backbone of welfare, goes almost exclusively to women heads of families. Food stamps, Medicare, and some types of Social Security are predominantly consumed by poor women, often with children. The Administration's attempt to slash these programs has thus amounted unfortunately to a cut in aid to poor women. The widespread decay of the "traditional" family which actually produced this situation belies one of Reagan's (and Phyllis Shlafly's, et. al.) main objections to the ERA--that somehow it will promote...
Suddenly, in the midst of all the joy, one small child cried forth, "I'm hungry! SOur family lost my father, my mother lost her job, and I lost AFDC payments. When will there be a recovery...
...Governors had no quarrel with Washington's willingness to finance all of Medicaid, but, by a vote of 36 to 5, they rejected the idea that the states should assume the AFDC and food stamp burden. This was in keeping with the traditional position of the National Governors Association that income-support programs for the poor are logically a national responsibility. Instead, the Governors offered to accept as state responsibilities a wide variety of other programs, including education, transportation, child nutrition and criminal justice. Total cost of those programs: about $31 billion...
...federal spending on Aid to Families with Dependent Children, which sends monthly welfare checks to some 11 million individuals. The President's budget projects expenditures of $5.5 billion in fiscal 1983, a 29% drop below current levels. This slash is deep enough to wipe out all recent AFDC increases when inflation is taken into account. Spending on the program was $6.4 billion in 1977, and the 1983 level would sink to $3.2 billion after adjustment for inflation...
Reagan's decision to give up AFDC and food stamp programs, which he has criticized as being vastly abused, while retaining Medicaid, in which abuses are more likely to be committed by doctors who overtreat and overprescribe than by the indigent ill, angers some state officials. Says Gerald M. Thornton, director of social services for North Carolina's Forsyth County: "He wants to take Medicaid, a respectable program, and give us food stamps, a program that's so unpopular that a person who gets stamps might as well be wearing tattoos. That's like getting...