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Very few live better on welfare than they would with full-time jobs at adequate wages. Obviously, cheating does happen. Item: In California, a man combined a secret job and welfare for an annual income of $16,800. Item: a regulation-wise hippie commune in Berkeley reconstituted itself into eight paper "households" and collected $1,000 a month in aid. Item: a group of middle-class suburbanites in Piedmont, Calif., where county rules require only identification and a statement of need before aid is issued, dramatized their displeasure with the system by easily getting onto the rolls at several offices...
...When it is a commune...
Given the spread of new experiments in family styles, the decision suggests that other judges may soon face some fascinating questions. Are adult commune members entitled, for example, to file joint tax returns, to military dependents' allowances and Social Security survivor benefits? In light of the Palo Alto decision, the answer is that the family that only stays together will not have a prayer in court. But there may be a way for communes to get around single-family zoning and other legal problems. One or two members of a commune might try to adopt the rest -at least...
...Francisco Chronicle: he had just completed his last "long play," "a tragedy with humor" about "alienation." But from now on, he vowed, his work "is going to reflect the society around me"-particularly the new family structures. "I don't think I could live in a commune myself, or even what they call a 'triangular' marriage-you know, one guy with two chicks. I'm too jealous by nature." As for allotting his time, he declared: "I've done 90% of the work I'm going to do. Mostly I'm just going...
...thousands of others will run out of their 39-week unemployment benefits. The Washington State legislature will probably extend benefits, but that will not go to the root of the problem. Already, a church-sponsored volunteer organization called Neighbors in Need is distributing free food, as is a small commune of the left-wing Seattle Liberation Front. Says Mayor Uhlman: "There is a lot of tragedy all around. The only hope we have lies in our people. They are rugged and resourceful, and eventually we will perhaps come out all the stronger for this...