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...days, decided to employ a Nixon type of solution in the Work Incentive Program (WIN). Enacted under the most flexible manpower act in the history of welfare, the program's function is to "increase the basic educational skills and employability of people under Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC...
LIKE ALL OTHER welfare programs, WIN is largely a voluntary program (only AFDC fathers--who are few--are required by law to participate). An additional stipend of $30 a month beyond the regular welfare check has been allotted to each client with the hope that it would offer incentive to stay with the program...
Critics of the program, which include the National Welfare Rights Organization, feel the main problem lies in the recruiting system. The actual communication with AFDC clients is done by the Department of Public Welfare social workers, after which a recipient is referred...
...other one-third of poor mothers are widowed, abandoned, divorced or unmarried?and the last have proved to be the most fecund of all. Fully 40% of all offspring on the national rolls of the Aid for Dependent Children program are illegitimate. AFDC spent $2.3 billion last year, up from a quarter of a billion dollars 20 years ago. One angry black Atlantan estimates that 616 poor Negro households in her housing project contain only 30 headed by a husband. The rest are women-dominated. Mrs. Marie Childress of Cleveland, for example, receives only $102 a month to feed...
...draws $55 a month for disability; the kids are good for $156 more in AFDC; a vegetable garden and a chicken coop housing about 30 Leghorns take care of the rest. There is a TV set in the shack, and a large fray-feathered fowl refrigerator stored with home-bottled pickles, beets, scallions and ? two weeks of the month ? spareribs or ham burger. Eb wryly remarks that there are advantages to blindness: it gives him an honorable excuse for being on the dole. Since the hardwoods were lumbered off and the deep coal mines virtually gutted...