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Welfare, the Family, and Reproductive Behavior Report of a Meeting (1998) / Chapter Skim
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Trends in the Welfare System
Pages 6-6

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... "Overall, we are moving further away from a system that provides direct cash assistance payments to low-income families, toward a system that increasingly conditions its assistance much more closely on particular groups that meet behavioral as well as income requirements." Rebecca Blank Given these trends in public assistance, why is there so much focus on the AFDC program and so little on the "budget busters," Medicaid and SSI? William Dickens suggested several answers: one is the continued increase in labor force participation rates among mothers of young children.
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