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...state friction, many local governments are growing restive in the 17 states where they contribute to the nonfederal share of the most expensive welfare program: Aid to Families with Dependent Children (in the other states, the state government picks up the full nonfederal tab). In New York, where the AFDC bill is split 50% federal, 25% state and 25% local, officials of Oneida and Orange counties simply decided to stop contributing. In California's Plumas County, an impoverished timber area in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, local welfare costs have risen by $60,000 from a year ago; the county...
...prompted by fiscal pressures. Officials of New York and other hard-pressed states are campaigning to get the Federal Government to pick up all or a larger share of the full welfare burden, with uniform eligibility rules. (Specifically, Commissioner Berger is asking that Washington pay 75% of all AFDC in states where unemployment exceeds...
...federal government were to take over the welfare system, as the authors recommend, Massachusetts could reduce? its antipoverty outlays by 40 per cent. But Nixon's current Far??? Assistance Plan would set only a $1600 minimum, much lower than current AFDC levels in the state. Nor are the current AFDC levels near the mark of $5000 which the Bureau of Labor Statistics claims Massachusetts should provide for a family of four (a sum, incidentally, far above the Orshanky poverty line used by the Social Security Administration). Most discouraging of all, only 22 per cent of the families in Massachusetts...
...five main categories of assistance-Old Age Assistance (OAA), Aid For Dependent Children (AFDC), Medicaid, and General Relief-AFDC has been growing the fastest in recent years. Although there are many families with fathers living at home on AFDC, it is still a splintering force in families. The largest segment of the welfare budget is taken up with Medicaid, AFDC and Old Age Assistance...
...program in Massachusetts which has helped people on AFDC gain options is a job-training program, started in '68, called WIN. It is 75 per cent federally financed and currently enrolls 2000 unemployed fathers. Training programs such as WIN are positive indicators that the government is beginning to attack some of the roots of poverty, not just the symptoms...