Word: poorness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHEN IT COMES to welfare, not all poor people are considered equal. Depending on the state in which they live, poor families with the same number of children receive welfare payments that vary by as much as several hundred dollars a year. But finally, after two years of paring down President Carter's extensive welfare reform package, the House last week took a small but welcomed first step to alleviate the inequalities of our present, non-federalized welfare system...
...House approved a bill last Thusday that guarantees a national minimum welfare payment to poor families with children. Current laws allow the states to pay as much or as little as they choose to poor families with children. Current laws allow the states to pay as much or as little as they choose to poor families. As a result, some states like New York provide far more assistance than other states. Such states are unfairly overburdened with payments to citizens on welfare...
...roundly denounced by liberals as an attempt to confuse CCA voters, was just one cloud in the campaign. The Cambridge Homeowners and Taxpayers (CHT), another new group largely discredited as a political force by their candidate Frisoli's poor showing, mailed condo owneres a letter listing the tax assessement on the homes of some "anti-condo" councilors. And the usual number of nasty rumors and charges circulated the city. Perhaps the most widely-voiced and least effective concerned David Sullivan. "Psssst," people would say, elbowing your ribs. "Did you know his name is really Solomon?" It isn't, at least...
Desegregation through busing, he said, evades the more basic problems of poor education, poor housing, and lack of jobs in the Boston area...
...Busing children from one poor school to another poor school doesn't do anybody any good," Wade said. "Neither does taking a black family from one raggedy home in one section and putting them in a raggedy home in another section of the city," he added...