Welfare denials review to protect the truly needy
The government plans to require states to double check denials or terminations of AFDC and Medicaid to ensure the truly needy are not denied aid. HEW proposes sampling denied cases to reduce errors, citing past crackdowns that saved taxpayers over a billion dollars.
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Ded Press-Telegram
Loos Beach
Calif
Washington
Federal Register
AFDC
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
National Welfare Rights Organization
HEW
Robert Fulton
Social and Rehabilitation Service
Gov
Rural Welfare Experiment Finds Husbands Keep Working
A three year HEW study of 809 rural Iowa and North Carolina families shows husbands and farmers continue to work despite welfare aid while wives and children often leave the labor force. The program tested a negative income tax with aid varying by income, noting improved nutrition and school performance in North Carolina children.
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Washington
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Iowa
North Carolina
New Jer
HEW
Conserving energy in the 1970s: consumer tips and stakes
In the winter of 1973 74 Americans embraced energy conservation as vital as foreign oil supplies faltered. Exxon pursues alternative sources while coal solar and efficiency drive long term gains. home energy cuts matter with 87 million dwellings offering large savings.
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Exxon
California Civilian Conservation Corps plan unveiled
Governor Brown announced California will accept applications for a Civilian Conservation Corps to employ about 1,000 young men and women next year. Recruitments begin for the first CCC since the 1930s with duties on trails watershed protection parks and fire control. Enlistees aged 18-20 will serve at least one year with room and board and monthly pay between 260 and 355 dollars. Applications due in early January at statewide motor vehicle employment fish and game parks and other departments. The same dispatch notes the state has sought 225000 dollars from Southern Pacific Railroad for fish killed when a derailment spilled chemicals into the Sacramento River last April.
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Sacramento
California
Civilian Conservation Corps
Southern Pacific Railroad
Sacramento River
Dunsmuir
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National Petroleum Council
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