The Role of Gender-Based Personality in Public Assistance Cases in Vermilion County, Illinois
type: CreativeWork
description: 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.
abstract: 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.
author: Bush, Richard Dale
keywords: Political Science, General
date published: 2014-12-15T20:01:57Z
date modified: 2026-07-22T22:26:01Z
provider: University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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