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After campaigning on a pledge to tidy up the welfare mess, Carter ordered Califano to produce a plan last year. Califano's complex proposal would consolidate grants and try to give needy families a regular basis of support: a single-parent family of four could count on $4,200. Califano's plan would also try to help people help themselves. Welfare mothers would be able to keep more of their benefits if they went to work, and 1.4 million public service jobs would be made available for low-income people...
Initially, Carter had hoped to reform the welfare system without spending more. The price of Califano's plan was originally estimated at $2.8 billion, but its critics now claim that the plan would increase welfare payments by $20 billion a year or more. Congress is considering other ways of tackling welfare, all of which face a major problem: they add a lot more money to the budget during a period of concern over inflation...
...school's entrance standards as well as whites. When HEW demanded that the number of new black students be increased to 15%, the university balked. A compromise was finally worked out last month that called the higher figure a "goal" to be worked toward rather than a mandatory quota. Califano promised to support the arrangement if it should be challenged in court by civil rights groups...
...country where HEW'S services are delivered, people often complain that its programs are not tailored closely enough to local needs. This has become more of a problem since Califano took away the power of the ten regional directors and re-centralized it in Washington. Too few bureaucrats, HEW'S critics claim, are rewarded for initiative. Says Robert Mollica, who deals with federal-state relations for the Governor's office in Massachusetts: "Occasionally we will find a bureaucrat who is courageous enough to interpret the spirit behind the programs rather than carrying them out to the letter whether...
...Okla., hospital official admits: "We come dangerously close to spending more to control the flow of money and comply with guidelines than we actually get from grants." Califano has managed to cut an estimated 9.5 million hours from the 47 million hours a year that are spent on HEW forms, but he admits that it is hard to notice the difference. Says Education Commissioner Ernest Boyer: "The problem is that you have five people in one town who are affected and 50 in another, and they never get together to celebrate. It's not noticeable because it's so spread...