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...chose to focus the group's efforts on the difficulties faced by students who receive aid under the Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program. Wilson, who now leads the group with aid of Pamela S. Greene, a public policy fellow at Radcliffe, has continued the women presidents' efforts to support AFDC students...
...colleagues that welfare recipients should not be stereotyped or grouped in a category characterized by the abuse of federal aid. Instead, she says, Massachusetts legislators need to recognize the value of supporting degree programs for hardworking individuals who receive aid under the Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program...
...URBAN INSTITUTE STUDY CONSIDERED the case of a hypothetical Pennsylvania woman with two children who received $4,836 in AFDC, $2,701 in food stamps and $3,000 in Medicaid benefits, for a total of $10,537 in cash and benefits. If she took a full-time job at minimum wage, her family would gain $9,516 in earnings before taxes and lose Medicaid, AFDC and one-third of her food stamps. Moreover, she would have to find and pay for day care. Welfare recipients who take part in job-training and education programs are eligible for subsidized care...
...They send these AFDC people back to school. How come we don't do that for the working poor?" asks Eloise Anderson, an African American who grew up in a poor neighborhood in Toledo, Ohio, and now heads the California Department of Social Services. "They made the same bad decisions, except the working poor usually live with their decisions; they go to work, they say, 'Hey, I blew it, but I'm working...
Although Tracey realizes how lucky she was tohave two nurturing mothers, she says she was stillaware of how education could limit one's security."We were on welfare my whole childhood, on AFDC[Aid to Families with dependent Children]. My momdidn't have a job and my dad wasn't around. My momwas unemployed for a lot of it. She did mostlyfactory work, manual labor, as a janitor,delivering auto parts, the sort of job you getwhile you're waiting for a real job. Because ofher education, she only qualified for the lowestpaying...