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...half of the children on Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) are under the age of five, Blood said...
...comes with a penalty. Mary Ann Mendez, a mother of three in Harlingen, Texas, received only Medicaid benefits when she was living with her common-law husband, who worked periodically. When he left her, however, her broken home was showered with benefits: Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), more food stamps, gas money to get to and from school, and free day care. "It doesn't seem like they want families to stay | together," she says...
...come from? From a proposal, in the words of the sponsors, to "simply end welfare to most noncitizens." To fund either approach, the sponsors propose cutting off millions of legal immigrants from school breakfast and lunch programs, foster care, emergency food and shelter and child care, as well as AFDC. Though Clinton's plan also includes cuts in programs for noncitizens, they are far more modest. "It's a matter of priorities," says McCurdy. "We believe American citizens are the priority...
...challenge of welfare reform is not the relatively small percentage of recipients who refuse to work but the much larger number who would love to. When the cost of finding or providing them jobs is added up, the present system may look like a bargain. All welfare programs, including AFDC, food stamps, housing subsidies and supplemental income for the disabled elderly, cost a total of $53.4 billion to the Federal Government -- about 4% of the federal budget. (The states kick in another $15.3 billion.) By some estimates, reform could push 1.5 million people into a job market where 8.3 million...
...will propose some "means testing" of tax breaks and spending programs that benefit the wealthy. But in general, like other politicians in both parties, Clinton is finding it easier to pitch for reforms in the main welfare program for the poor (Aid to Families with Dependent Children, or AFDC, budgeted at $16 billion a year) than to dismantle the subsidies now taken for granted by campaign contributors and other members of the comfortable classes. Here is where the money is, some of which Clinton is pursuing, but much of which is nearly untouched...