Word: children
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WHEN IT COMES to welfare, not all poor people are considered equal. Depending on the state in which they live, poor families with the same number of children receive welfare payments that vary by as much as several hundred dollars a year. But finally, after two years of paring down President Carter's extensive welfare reform package, the House last week took a small but welcomed first step to alleviate the inequalities of our present, non-federalized welfare system...
...House approved a bill last Thusday that guarantees a national minimum welfare payment to poor families with children. Current laws allow the states to pay as much or as little as they choose to poor families with children. Current laws allow the states to pay as much or as little as they choose to poor families. As a result, some states like New York provide far more assistance than other states. Such states are unfairly overburdened with payments to citizens on welfare...
...minimum subsistence level. That amounts to about $4650 a year for a family of four in 1979 dollars. The new rule would raise the payments to about 800,000 families in 13 states, mainly in the South and Southwest. Under present welfare rules, only single-parent families with dependent children receive aid, a system that encourages the break-up of marriages, some experts say. The House bill also gives tax credits to the working poor, a system that encourages poor people to find or hold onto jobs. The present system does not provide such tax credits...
...Busing children from one poor school to another poor school doesn't do anybody any good," Wade said. "Neither does taking a black family from one raggedy home in one section and putting them in a raggedy home in another section of the city," he added...
...threatened to commit suicide if she would not marry him, but they lived together five years before the union was made legal in 1915. During Il Duce's rise and reign from 1922 to 1943, Donna Rachele remained at home, keeping house and rearing their five children. After the dictator was shot by partisans and hanged by the heels along with Claretta Petacci, his best-known mistress, his destitute widow returned to her native Forli. There she battled successfully for her right to a government pension, the Christian burial of Mussolini's remains and the return of many...