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...have the principle of federal standards established. New York Mayor John Lindsay called the Nixon proposal Washington's "most important step forward in this field in a generation." To appease conservatives, Republican Nixon spoke of "investment," of "startup costs" to get the engine of social rehabilitation going, of work as "part of the American character." He was almost apologetic about the need to spend more federal funds initially. Failure to act, he said, would be more expensive in the long run in both human and economic terms. He underscored the decentralizing features of his plan. His welfare and revenue-sharing...
...core of the concept is the desire to get as many welfare recipients as possible working. Only mothers of preschool children and those physically or mentally incapable of holding a job would be exempted. When an ablebodied, but unemployed father applies for federal assistance under the Nixon plan, he would also have to register with a local employment service. If "suitable" work or job training is available, the applicant would have to accept. If he refused, his portion of the federal grant ($500) would be eliminated. The remaining federal funds would be made available to the mother and children through...
WHAT America needs now," the President told the nation last week, "is not more welfare, but more 'work-fare.' " On the wings of that Nixonian neologism, the President proposed the first fundamental overhaul of the U.S. welfare system since it was created 34 years ago. The key element to the reform was a "family-assistance system." Although Nixon pointedly denied it, the notion is very much like a guaranteed income-with one'crucial difference. For the ablebodied, willingness to accept "suitable" employment or vocational training would be the quid for the quo of assistance. In essence, Nixon...
This family would be allowed $720 in earned income without suffering any reduction in the maximum federal subsidy of $1,600. (The $720 constitutes what the government considers the cost of working, such as transportation, clothes and lunches, for a year.) For a family of four, the descending scale of federal subsidy-apart from any state payment-would work this...
...encourage mothers of dependent children to work, the Nixon welfare package would develop 450,000 additional openings in new or expanded day-care centers. These facilities provide nursery care for the children as well as job opportunities for some of the mothers. The centers would also offer educational programs. To make the entire system more attractive to the states and cities, Washington would contribute more than it now does for AFDC costs. For instance, if the new approach were in effect this year, California would be getting an extra $179,500,000. Alaska would receive $1,000,000 more...