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Ford's predictons show a $560,000 drop in income, from $35.4 million last year to $34.8 this year. Unlike the expense column, where the blame was spread over many small increases, the cause of the income drop is immediately obvious. While most items contribuing to income show modest increases, the "Overhead from Research Contracts" entry takes a $480,000 drop...
Governor Volpe's reaction has been to ignore almost completely the Cohen Report's conclusions and instead blame the poor and "agitators" for the present chaos in the state welfare system...
...remarkable report of the Cohen committee, which revealed the state's welfare system to be in far worse shape than even the protesting mothers had claimed. No sooner had the report been released when Governor Volpe, during a visit to Boston, tried to defend himself by laying the blame for Massachusetts' welfare mess on "a nationwide conspiracy to disrupt the public welfare system and to force us to bend to whatever they have in mind...
Such demagogic nonsense, like the unusually serious charges brought against the welfare protesters, seems designed to obscure the facts of the welfare situation by transferring the blame from the Volpe administration to a group of welfare recipients and students. Lost in the shuffle is the fact that the welfare mothers are suffering more than anyone from the massive irregularities in welfare administration. In the specific case of the State House sit-in, the protesting mothers were informed by state officials that their demands for winter clothing for their children would have to wait until the state could reorganize the Medicaid...
Hanging over the trial is the remarkable report released on Tuesday by the Cohen committee, a report which documents the gross mismanagement of the Massachusetts welfare system, and places the blame squarely on Gov. Volpe and his administration...