Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Security survivors' benefits. Sponsored by Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge, the amendments say that some recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children funds must register for job training and referral programs. The concept of "workfare" has long been dear to critics anxious to cut welfare chiselers from the relief rolls. It was a prime component of Nixon's reform package. The Talmadge amendments slightly beef up existing regulations requiring job registration for welfare recipients, but in fact they are not so stringent as some provisions of H.R.I. For example, mothers with children under the age of six would...
...punishment of the poor for being poor, punishment of the sick for being sick, punishment of the old for growing old," Massachusetts Republican Governor Francis Sargent managed to beat back many proposals of the state legislature, such as removing everyone between the ages of 18 and 21 from the relief rolls...
...died and more than 100 others were injured when they were caught by air strikes as they attempted to repair huge bomb craters in the Dacca airport runway. India declared a temporary moratorium on air strikes late last week so that the runway could be repaired and 400 U.N. relief personnel and other foreigners could be flown out. It was repaired, but the Pakistanis changed their mind and refused to allow the U.N.'s evacuation aircraft to land at Dacca, leaving U.N. personnel trapped as potential hostages. The International Red Cross declared Dacca's Intercontinental Hotel and nearby Holy Family...
President Nixon appeared on the last day and told the delegates that he plans to increase the budget for the Administration on Aging "nearly fivefold," bringing the sum to $100 million by 1973. He also promised that he would immediately begin to work on means of relief for elderly homeowners burdened by increasing property taxes. Delegates had earlier been disappointed when high-ranking Administration officials failed to deal with what old-age programs need most: an immediate, fresh infusion of federal money. They were pleased with Nixon's promises...
...money raised at Harvard will be sent to a relief organization run by Indian citizens in Bombay, who will use it to purchase ambulances, medical supplies and clothes...