Word: aids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...welfare-reform program intended, by linking aid to work, to overhaul fundamentally poverty assistance. For a family of four, the basic federal subsidy would be $1,600, available to able-bodied recipients only if they accept employment or enrollment in job-training classes. The Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) would lose operating authority over the nation's antipoverty projects and would assume the more limited responsibility for research and development of new programs...
...that family-assistance recipients accept "suitable" employment also worries some. They fear that the lack of safeguards in Nixon's plan against abuses of this requirement could lead to unemployed people being trained for skilled work and then being forced to accept menial jobs to qualify for federal aid...
...been in operation less than three years; thus it may be too soon to compare it with the two previous programs. But the question remains whether the Bill is as well attuned as it might be to the educational needs of contemporary American society. Beyond more attractive financial aid to veterans, a more realistic G.I. Bill would spur interest in higher education while men are still in the service, and emphasize skill training to meet the economy's present needs...
...questions - simple, single questions, one at a time, in order to develop facts in evidence either in interviewing a witness or examining him in a courtroom." As an example of a favorable trend, Burger praised the growing number of schools that permit their students to spend time on legal-aid and public-defender programs...
...Helen Gayle Moore of Montebello, Calif., had custody of her three children, while her ex-husband contributed to their support. But Jack Moore not only gained custody by agreement with the mother in 1967; he later convinced a court that he was entitled to financial aid. Moore's paper-products company had just gone out of business. More over, although his older daughter had married, the younger one needed money for college. Shouldn't his exwife, who nets $380 a month from her department-store job, help support the two children remaining in his care? Indeed she should...