Word: afdc
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...spotlight on the problems of poverty and urban decay. But long before that explosion, the recession put welfare high on the political agenda by swelling public-assistance rolls with legions of unemployed workers. Around 4.7 million households, or 13.6 million individuals, are receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), the main cash-assistance program. That's an increase of 24% in the past two years. The number of food-stamp recipients shot up from 20.9 million in October 1990 to 24.2 million a year later. The total cost of these two programs alone is more than $40 billion...
...past year, about 40 states have reduced or frozen benefits, and many have tightened eligibility requirements. Among them, Michigan and Ohio have cut off all payments to 170,000 recipients of general assistance, which provides aid to impoverished single adults, and California Governor Pete Wilson has proposed to reduce AFDC payments as much...
There is some irony in this, since Congress four years ago passed what was supposed to be the welfare blueprint for the rest of the century. Drawing on dozens of state workfare experiments during the previous decade, the Family Support Act of 1988 was designed to channel able-bodied AFDC parents into the work force. Among other things, it requires every state to provide education and job-training programs and offers Medicaid coverage and child-care payments for up to one year after parents leave the welfare rolls to take jobs...
WELFARE REFORM. Poor mothers who take a job or marry a man with a job stand to lose cash benefits from Aid to Families with Dependent Children, and health care for their families under Medicaid. While some hard-liners would abolish AFDC altogether, some conservatives, including Stuart Butler of the Heritage Foundation, would reduce benefits for unmarried mothers and those who remain unemployed after their children enter school, while increasing benefits for poor women who marry and work...
Until recently, the state government provided $150 moving vouchers to those receiving General Relief or Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). But Governor William F. Weld '66 eliminated this service in 1990 and 1991, calling it an "extraneous expenditure," according to DeLong...