Word: presentability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...states now paying less than that figure: $1,600 a year for a family of four, with an extra $300 for each additional member. The basic allowance would be reduced as private income increases, but the family would be allowed to keep more of its earnings than at present. When the family of four reaches an income of $3,920, all federal assistance would end. Benefits paid by local or state authorities, however, could be added to the total...
...crucial difference between the new proposal and current practice is that the Nixon program would recognize the nation's working poor. In many states, the present AFDC laws bar aid to families with able-bodied fathers in the home. For many of these men, who are either unemployed or have low-paying jobs, there is only one choice. They desert their families. Nixon's program would provide for such families without encouraging the father to leave. It would authorize relief for 12,400,000 needy Americans who now get none...
Under the present hodgepodge of individual state regulations, benefits fluctuate wildly. In Mississippi, a family headed by an unemployed woman receives $39 per month. In New Jersey, the same family gets $263. Largely as a result of these discrepancies, many impoverished people migrate from low-paying states-especially in the South -to areas with better benefits...
...machinery is the thing. Unquestionably, the amount would grow in the future. Under Nixon's proposal, in January 1971, the Federal Government would start sending tax money back to the states, with a mandatory amount "passed through" to the cities and localities. Few strings would be attached, and present grants for particular purposes would presumably be continued. Nixon also wants to turn many of the manpower-training responsibilities back to the states. Both these plans mesh with the welfare proposal, and Nixon recommended that they be considered as a group. A fourth part of the plan would take...
...ultimate aim is to reverse the steady growth of relief rolls. In the end, this would save money as well as redeem wasted lives. But to get started, the extra welfare cost to Washington would be $2.5 billion. For its $4.7 billion-a-year investment under the present system, however, the Federal Government has little to show...