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Kathy Hogan, the county's social-services director, estimates that 4,500 households in Fargo receive some form of public assistance and that possibly 1,500 more need it. Many of her clients on afdc and food stamps work full time; she fears cutbacks in child care will drive more parents to quit their jobs, and thus increase demands for welfare. "I'm not a hysterical person by nature," says Hogan, "but I am panicked...
...after Republicans unveiled their plans to scrap government programs that have become part of the American way of life, Fargoans barely blinked. If anyone had reason to panic, perhaps it was Marlene Brown, 30, a mother of an eight-year-old son. She receives $337 a month in AFDC payments and $200 a month in food stamps. Currently enrolled in a vocational school where she is learning word-processing and stress-management skills, Brown also has a Pell grant of $760 and a $1,700 federal loan to pay for her education. Sipping a Bud Light with her sister...
...country for two or three years. You've got small children, your husband is working a service job, maybe in a hotel or a restaurant, and he's battering you. Who do you turn to?" she asked the audience. "Currently, 70 percent of our clients are on AFDC. They are trying to put their lives together. It's critical forthem...
...mother is a legal immigrant on AFDC, and Ijust became a citizen. I cannot emphasize how muchAFDC helped us. My dad is an alcoholic and we hadto leave him," he said...
...Without AFDC I wouldn't be here today. I'mjust glad I'm not out on the streets right now,selling crack like a lot of the other kids I know.I hope the government appreciates how important aprogram it is," he said...