Poverty, Hunger, and the Welfare System: Hearing Before the Select Committee on Hunger, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, Second Session, Hearing Held in Washington, DC, August 5, 1986U.S. Government Printing Office, 1987 - 176 halaman |
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Halaman 163 - A household includes the related family members and all the unrelated persons, if any, such as lodgers, foster children, wards, or employees who share the housing unit. A person living alone in a housing unit, or a group of unrelated persons sharing a housing unit as partners, is also counted as a household.
Halaman 163 - family" refers to a group of two or more persons related by blood, marriage, or adoption and residing together; all such persons are considered as members of the same family.
Halaman 119 - Except for purposes of sections 402(d) , 402(e) , 402(f ) , 423 and 425 of this title, the term "disability" means (A) inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to result in death or has lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than 12 months...
Halaman 97 - What about the sharp rise in the fraction of all black births to unmarried women? The birth rate to unmarried black women fell 13 percent between 1970 and 1980, but the birth rate to married black women fell even more — by 38 percent; thus, the fraction of births to unmarried women rose. During the same period the unmarried birth rate to whites rose by 27 percent. It seems difficult to argue that AFDC was a major influence in unmarried births when there was simultaneously a rise in the birth rate...
Halaman 74 - The research reported here was supported in part by funds granted to the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare pursuant to the provisions of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964.
Halaman 96 - AFDC actually fell by 5 percent. If AFDC were pulling families apart and encouraging the formation of single-parent families, it is very hard to understand why the number of children on the program would remain constant throughout the period in our history when family structures changed the most.
Halaman 104 - While the figures above differ slightly, they are all vastly lower than the 62-percent figure for whites. If black youth unemployment were concentrated in the ghettos, it would be easier to accept the culture of poverty hypothesis. The fact that black/white youth unemployment differentials seem to persist for all geographic locations, for all family types, and for all income groups clearly suggests that the cause is something more fundamental than the growth of welfare programs, which amount to less...
Halaman 86 - But current transfer policies do relatively little to help the poor achieve self-sufficiency or to ameliorate some of the serious social problems attending poverty.
Halaman 111 - Indeed, no other group in American society experienced such a sharp decline in real income since 1970 as did AFDC mothers and their children.'"57 It is clear, however, that the Reagan administration waged a war on programs for the poor.
Halaman 104 - The dynamics of youth unemployment. In The youth labor market problem: Its nature, causes, and consequences, ed.