Word: afdc
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...financially distressed and not already on welfare--as half the C.P.C. clients are--she will be tutored in applying for AFDC and food stamps. ``We find that women don't even know what welfare assistance is available now,'' says Judy Brown, general counsel of Care Net. ``We act as a referral system...
...over the next seven years to meet that goal. The antipoverty programs would be whacked severely. A White House estimate the G.O.P. does not dispute projects that 5 million children, half of those supported under the $23 billion-a-year Aid to Families with Dependent Children program (AFDC), could be denied assistance...
...income, which registered almost no growth in the 1970s and 1980s, is now actually declining. The welfare rolls are not increasing because of generous benefits or because single mothers are working less. They're working more," while the inflation- adjusted value of the main antipoverty programs, food stamps and AFDC, has declined by 26% between...
...welfare mothers "don't work," and that the goal of reform is to get them out of their own kitchens and into those of, say, Burger King. Well, ladies, what have we been doing in our kitchens all these years if not some species of work? No one receives AFDC payments without having at least one child to feed, wash, dress and pick up after, and the assumption of the welfare reformers seems to be that these activities are on a par with bonbon consumption. In the conceptual framework that holds that welfare mothers "don't work," affluent married homemakers...
Given this, Blood protested the fact that AFDC accounts for only about one percent of the federal budget. She also objected to the present poverty line--a number she said has not been changed for some time...