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December Units - Consensus on Welfare
League Wins at the Polls (Dorothy Bremner)
School Committee Rates "A"
U.S. Congress Study Gets Underway
Honolulu League Needs You!
In the Campaign Finances Committee
Bouquet to... (Ann Hansen)
Air Pollution Glossary
In Your Own Home (You Supply the Scissors!)
Election Night Coverage (Betty Buck)
Susie Orient Says---
Welfare Consensus Questions

Welfare Consensus Questions

    1. Do you believe that government Shares a responsibility for meeting the basic needs of every person

      by assuring that jobs (and training for jobs) are available, and/or by providing income assistance if jobs are not available, earnings are inadequate, or persons are unemployable, and/or

      by other means?

    2. Do you believe that government has no responsibility for meeting the basic needs of every person?

    3. Other opinions?

  1. In considering programs of income assistance, what levels of government (i.e. local, state, federal) should be responsible for

    financing

    setting standards

    administration?

  2. In considering the criteria of a public assistance program, to combat poverty, what factors should determine

    eligibility

    benefit levels

    protection of privacy, humane and dignified treatment of beneficiaries

    whether assistance should be in cash or in kind

    the relationship between public assistance and work, i.e. should recipients be encouraged to work, or required to work, or should assistance benefits be scaled to provide work incentives?

  3. In considering programs of supportive services:

    What supportive services do you believe are essential for public assistance beneficiaries (e.g. health, child care, family planning, legal services)?

    Should these services be free, or available on a sliding scale? Should supportive services for people in assistance categories be integrated with, or separate from those for the general public? Should recipients have the right to reject social services?

    What levels of government should be responsible for financing, setting standards and administration?


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