Word: money
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because of the huge sums paid doctors under Medicaid, other important aspects of welfare are neglected--there is little money or time to consider them...
...changes, but no substantive changes." He added that private enterprise has stimulated some economic improvement, but it has done little to erase Watt's deficiencies in housing, health, and education. He denounced President-elect Nixon's proposal of "black capitalism" in the ghetto, saying that it would only provide money for a few "black bourgeois" but "it won't help the masses of people...
...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...
...report 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...
...Volpe assured the public on Wednesday that the protesting mothers were in fact getting enough money, although how he came to this determination amid the utter chaos of his welfare administration remains a mystery...