Word: fip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FIP's sponsors must first guide it through a vote in the state legislature, then ask the U.S. Congress for permission to replace such long-standard outlays as Aid to Families with Dependent Children, food stamps and Medicaid. The federal money earmarked for those programs would be matched with state grants and poured into new benefits, bonuses, job training and family-planning courses, as well as subsidies for the private employers who are expected to absorb two-thirds of the FIP graduates...
...pressure on women to leave their children and go to work could increase the chances of abuse or neglect. The program puts infants and toddlers on the firing line." Some members of the legislature also doubt that the state economy can create the 72,000 jobs required to absorb FIP trainees and others entering the market...
Gardner replies that the state can solve both the employment and infant-care problems by putting welfare mothers to work in day-care centers, which are expected to grow through state subsidies from an $8 million-a-year business to $116 million a year. FIP, he says, "won't cost more than the current welfare program, and it won't save money either. But it will save lives and self- esteem, careers and families...