Safety Net Programs: Are They Reaching Poor Children? : a Report of the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, Second Session, Together with Dissenting Minority ViewsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1986 - 351 pages |
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Page 93 - Aid to dependent children was established by the Social Security Act of 1935 as a cash grant program to enable States to aid needy children without fathers. Renamed Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), the program provides cash welfare payments for...
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Page 333 - Raised in an environment in which fathers don't provide for their young and dependency on government is assumed, few children will develop the skills of self-sufficiency, or even the concept of personal responsibility. Young men will not. strive to be good providers and young women will not expect it of their men. Family breakdown becomes cyclical, out-of-wedlock births become cyclical, poverty and dependence becomes cyclical. And the culture of poverty grows.
Page 98 - Federal level, the program is jointly administered by the Department of Labor and the Department of Health and Human Services.
Page 95 - Need and payment standards To receive AFDC payments, a family must pass two income tests: first, a gross income test, and second, a counted ("net") income test. The gross income test is 185 percent of the State's need standard for the relevant family size; and it applies to both applicants and enrollees. This was increased by Congress from 150 percent of the need standard by Public Law 98-369 in 1984. No one with gross income that exceeds 185 percent of the need standard can receive...
Page 94 - AFDC ends on a child's 18th birthday, or at state option upon a child's 19th birthday if the child is a full-time student in a secondary or technical school and may reasonably be expected to complete the program before he or she reaches age 19.
Page 97 - ... full-time work expenses; a lower deduction applied to part-time workers. The act requires States to disregard the first $75 monthly for full and part-time workers. 3. Continuation of $30 disregard. — Under prior law, the $30 plus one-third of remaining earnings disregard was limited to 4 months. The act retains the 4-month limit on the one-third disregard but extends the $30 disregard for an additional 8 months for a total of 12 months. 4. Work transition status. — Under prior law, a family...
Page 333 - Perhaps the most important analytic point to have emerged in this description of the other America is the fact that poverty in America forms a culture, a way of life and feeling, that it makes a whole.