Word: childrene
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WARRENDALE. The melancholy lives of a group of mentally disturbed children are portrayed in this magnificent Canadian documentary by Allan King...
...PARTY and THE BASEMENT are a pair of Pinter puzzlers that amuse as well as bemuse. The first playlet deals with a successful businessman whose system short-circuits when all the forces in his life-secretary, wife, children, parents-come together at an office gathering. In the second, two men and a girl try to conquer each other and their living space...
...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 program--in which shocking profiteering by dentists and others was uncovered by the Cohen committee...
...corroborates the complaints of the protesting mothers. Its central point is that the state's welfare money is not reaching the people for whom it was intended. The mothers who are on trial today for sitting-in in a desperate attempt to obtain money for winter clothing for their children represent the victims of the welfare system. The Cohen report has now filled in the other side of the picture: now we know where the money has been going...
...facts indicate that the Governor is wrong. The basic allowance for women with two children is about $50 per week. This money is meant to cover all of a family's needs. It just isn't enough, and to keep families going at all, an informal system of extra payments has developed. These extra payments are not for luxuries: they are an essential part of a welfare recipient's income. Now the money for these payments is running out--as a direct consequence of the welfare mismanagement and profiteering that was revealed this week. The mothers who demonstrated...