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Around the country there were protests. In Berkeley, 2000 demonstrators were met by police with rifles. One policeman was isolated in the crowd when he tried to retrieve a nightstick that had been stolen. He was severely beaten, and was treated for lacerations. Police charged the crowd, which fled, and later burned an AEC official...
Small marches will be held at Penn State, Yale, Princeton, Berkeley and Eastern Michigan University, as well as at other universities throughout the country...
...Berkeley, Calif., a young husband and father, unemployed but trying to improve his future by attending college at night, is receiving aid. His caseworker informs him that by going to school he is violating the rules: he must be available for employment at all times. He quits school and is still on welfare...
Very few live better on welfare than they would with full-time jobs at adequate wages. Obviously, cheating does happen. Item: In California, a man combined a secret job and welfare for an annual income of $16,800. Item: a regulation-wise hippie commune in Berkeley reconstituted itself into eight paper "households" and collected $1,000 a month in aid. Item: a group of middle-class suburbanites in Piedmont, Calif., where county rules require only identification and a statement of need before aid is issued, dramatized their displeasure with the system by easily getting onto the rolls at several offices...
Although they do not live the myth, welfare clients ironically share a belief in it. In a study by Dr. Scott Briar, professor in the school of social welfare at Berkeley, nearly half of a sampling of recipients thought that cheating was much more frequent than it is, 58% thought that many people stayed on welfare too long, and most thought that welfare departments had a right to check on clients and end aid if they found improprieties such as unreported income. Said Briar: "Welfare clients in general share the mores of the wider middle-class society about work...