By DAVID FIRESTONE Published: September 21, 1995 The morning after the Senate voted to end the country’s 60-year-old guarantee of relief for poor families, a group of people who have devoted their careers to those families gathered in a tired public-housing assembly room in Manhattan yesterday for one of the gloomiest meetings any of them… [Read more…]
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By JONATHAN P. HICKS Published: September 21, 1995 The Giuliani administration’s requirement that welfare recipients work for the city a minimum of 26 hours a week is forcing thousands of students at the City University of New York to choose between education and workfare assignments, administrators and students told a City Council committee yesterday. The… [Read more…]
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By DOUGLAS MARTIN Published: September 1, 1995 On a sweltering day, hard against the Williamsburg Bridge, Justino Morado and 14 fellow welfare recipients shoveled and raked caked dirt and filth from a stairway that looked as if it hadn’t been cleaned in 20 years. Mr. Morado, 42, who is being paid one-quarter the salary of… [Read more…]
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By JAMES DAO Published: August 9, 1995 FRIENDSHIP, N.Y.— This region of cornfields and shale-encrusted hills near the Pennsylvania border once seeped with wealth in the form of crude oil. Now the very same hills conceal pockets of poverty and welfare dependency. In this town where oil barons lived in splendor 100 years ago, today… [Read more…]
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By KEVIN SACK Published: June 3, 1995 ALBANY, June 2— Because it does not pick up the garbage or put out fires, the state government often seems a distant and passive bureaucracy. This year’s budget may cure that misimpression once and for all. By delivering tax cuts, some of the deepest spending reductions in recent… [Read more…]
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By KEVIN SACK Published: May 22, 1995 ALBANY, May 21— The budget that Gov. George E. Pataki proposed in February rested on the three philosophical pillars of his campaign: to cut state income taxes, to put welfare recipients to work and to reduce state spending. Nearly four months later, the budget negotiations that Mr. Pataki… [Read more…]
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By MAX FRANKEL Published: May 14, 1995 America’s generous image if itself is in grave danger this Mother’s Day. Out of habit, we’ve sent 155 million cards to moms, grandmoms and moms-in-law, and millions of $25 bouquets. Today we’ll call or visit, and maybe go out to dinner — reinforcing the piety that motherhood remains… [Read more…]
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By KIMBERLY J. McLARIN Published: April 21, 1995 Mildred Williams sat nervously in a room with blue walls early Wednesday, waiting for her name to be called. She had come to the welfare office at 330 Jay Street in Brooklyn seeking public assistance. It was the second time in two months. Ms. Williams said she… [Read more…]
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By Joyce Purnick Published: April 20, 1995 THERE is a well-recognized phenomenon in the world of welfare called churning, and it happens whenever politicians decide to shake up the welfare system. Here is how it has worked when other cities and states have tried what Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani is doing in New York City:… [Read more…]
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By DAVID FIRESTONE Published: April 20, 1995 A day after touting the success of tough new eligibility rules for New York’s welfare program providing benefits to childless, able-bodied adults, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani said yesterday that he actually favors abolishing the program altogether. The Home Relief program, created in 1931 by Franklin D. Roosevelt when… [Read more…]
June 17, 2010
By JAMES DAO Published: April 13, 1995 ALBANY, April 12— In a sign that state budget talks have moved out of reverse gear, the Assembly’s Democratic leadership put the finishing touches on a welfare plan today that would restore about $120 million in spending to Gov. George E. Pataki’s proposed budget. Though the plan is… [Read more…]
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By Joyce Purnick Published: April 6, 1995 SHON-DU has a little bulletin for the Mayor. He can crack down on welfare, impose all the rules he wants, fingerprint both of Shon-du’s hands and put him through workfare hoops from here to his home in Brownsville and back. The Mayor can do that and more, but… [Read more…]
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