Nutrition and Human Needs--1970: Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, Second Session, Part 1 |
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adequate income administration AFDC agency amended amount approved under title basic income bill blind Chairman child children's allowance clause cost disabled earned income effect eligible employment families with children family assistance benefits Family Assistance Plan family of four Federal Government food stamp program foster care funds GINSBERG going gram hunger incentive income maintenance program increase individual inserting in lieu JEANETTE WASHINGTON LIBRARY OF CONGRESS lieu thereof Mayor LINDSAY Means Committee medicaid ment million minimum month mothers negative income tax PATRICELLI percent persons plan approved poverty level poverty line President's problem proposal public assistance pursuant receiving Reverend JACKSON SCHORR Secretary of Labor Senator DOLE Senator Harris Senator JAVITS Senator McGOVERN Senator PERCY Social Security Act standards subsection supplement supplementary payments tion U.S. SENATOR VENEMAN wage welfare program welfare reform welfare system York City
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Page 128 - State, or to the interstate agency, for projects under or parts of the plan affected by such failure) until he is satisfied that there will no longer be any such failure. Until he is so satisfied, the...
Page 34 - Referred to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed To the Congress of the United States...
Page 28 - After a third of a century of power flowing from the people and the states to Washington it is time for a New Federalism in which power, funds and responsibility will flow from Washington to the states and to the people.
Page 100 - Treasury to the credit of the appropriation for the purposes of this title. (b) The Board shall approve any plan which fulfills the conditions specified in subsection (a), except that...
Page 62 - The Secretary shall make such provision as he finds appropriate in the case of payment of more than the correct amount of benefits with respect to...
Page 42 - I propose that we make available an addition to the incomes of the "working poor," to encourage them to go on working and to eliminate the possibility of making more from welfare than from wages. I...
Page 44 - Food stamps would continme to be available up to $300 per year per person, according to the plan I outlined last May in my message to the Congress on the food and nutrition needs of the population in poverty. For dependent families there will be an orderly substitution of food stamps by the new direct monetary payments.
Page 114 - State agency may be established or designated to administer or supervise the administration of the rest of such plan; and...
Page 31 - As I mentioned previously, greatly expanded day-care facilities would be provided for the children of welfare mothers who choose to work. However, these would be day-care centers with a difference. There is no single ideal to which this Administration is more firmly committed than to the enriching of a child's first five years of life...
Page 33 - Poverty will not be defeated by a stroke of a pen signing a check; and it will not be reduced to nothing overnight with slogans or ringing exhortations. Poverty is not only a state of income. It is also a state of mind and a state of health. Poverty must be conquered without sacrificing the will to work, for if we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.