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Wilson's proposal is a combination of fiscal conservatism and enforced behavioral modification for those who receive Aid to Families with Dependent Children, a program that costs the state $6 billion each year. If approved by a majority of voters next November, the measure would automatically reduce AFDC payments 10%, lowering the monthly payment to a single mother with two children from $663 to $597. Furthermore, mothers who have additional children would not receive more financial aid, and yearly cost-of-living adjustments for AFDC would be eliminated. Newcomers from elsewhere in the U.S. would be limited during their first...
Democrats in the legislature condemned the measure as a demagogic attack on AFDC. In addition, some advocates of welfare rights question the constitutionality of denying benefits to newborn children. But state officials note that public-assistance expenditures are growing at a 12% annual rate, and they claim people are migrating to California to take advantage of the state's higher welfare payments. In an interview with TIME last month, Wilson talked about the tough choices ahead: "What we are going to have to do, I think, is make an internal decision to be less generous . . . There is a limit...
Learnfare is Thompson's flagship incentive program. Designed to keep poor kids in the classroom and off the streets, it has proved extremely controversial. In the 1988-89 school year, Wisconsin sanctioned some 6,600 truant teens, saving the state an estimated $3.3 million in AFDC benefits. Says Thompson: "The state of Wisconsin is watching them and saying, 'If your mother and father don't require you to go to school, the state is going to be there to make sure...
...Governor gripes that his state has become a "welfare magnet" for out- of-state poor because Wisconsin -- despite a reduction of AFDC outlays of 6% to fund Thompson's reforms -- has some of the highest benefits in the nation. In 1989 he proposed a two-tier system that would peg newcomers' benefits to those in their home states during their first six months of Wisconsin residency. Advocates for the poor challenge the legality of the double-barreled scheme, pointing out that the Supreme Court banned residency requirements for welfare benefits...
...your parents own a home, chances are almost one in two that they benefit from the most expensive welfare program in the country. It costs more than Medicaid. It costs more than unemployment compensation. It costs three times as much as Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), the program commonly known as "welfare...