The Role of Gender-Based Personality in Public Assistance Cases in Vermilion County, Illinois
Despite countless efforts by national, state, and local governments to arrest the growth in the numbers of persons receiving payments under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program, the number of AFDC recipients and the subsequent costs of this program to all levels of government continued to grow through the 1970s. Recent leveling off of that growth has occurred only due to a political redefinition of eligibility and the placement of a ceiling artificially on the costs of welfare. A variety of theories as to what causes and what will end recipiency and programmatic designs based upon those theories failed for the most part in the latter 1960s and throughout the 1970s to attain the desired results, paving the way for these more politically based and motivated solutions to the welfare dilemma.
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