Word: cohen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cohen Report has been regarded throughout the country as an important document. It shows how welfare is big business for wealthier members of the community, and how the poor and the taxpayers are hurt most by a system that is supposed to benefit them...
...effort to facilitate public discussion of the Cohen welfare report and of today's trial, the CRIMSON, the daily newspaper of Harvard University, has published this extra in the Boston area...
...trial comes two days after the 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...
...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...
...message of the Cohen report is that Massachusetts' welfare money is not reaching the people who need it. By helping to dramatize that fact, the welfare mothers and their supporters were trying to do something which needed to be done. They are not criminals or conspirators as Governor Volpe would like us to believe. A charge of conspiracy for such a protest as this one is absurd and unjust...