Word: programing
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...Families with Dependent Children. Federal participation in this basic welfare program started in 1935, when Washington joined the states in expanding what was then known as the mothers' aid movement. Originally, the program was intended primarily to assist widows with children. Today 80% of the payments go to single parents whose mates have deserted, and other eligibility standards have been steadily made more generous. In 1936, 534,000 people collected a total of $21.3 million in welfare payments from Washington. Today the Federal Government pays $7 billion to 11 million recipients. A tightening of rules is calculated to remove...
...issue. America has come to the aid of one starving people after another. But the moment is at hand to put an end to hunger in America itself for all time." At his behest, Congress in 1970 passed amendments to the National School Lunch Act that gave the program its current structure...
...amendments set federal income standards for children receiving free and cheap lunches, converting the school lunch program into an entitlement. School districts that joined were to serve free lunches to all children from families with incomes at or below the federally defined poverty line, and charge a maximum of 20?-a figure that did not change (to 40?) until the start of the present school year last month-for lunches eaten by students whose families earned up to 25% more than that...
...changes led to an enormous expansion of the school lunch program. Over the next ten years, federal subsidies for school lunches multiplied more than five times, from $576 million in 1970 to $3.1 billion in fiscal 1980. Last year, subsidized lunches were served to 27 million elementary and secondary school pupils, about half the total student population, in more than 90% of the nation's schools. Most politicians viewed the growth with pride. In 1974 a Senate Agriculture Subcommittee noted that the subsidies were growing much more rapidly than inflation was driving up food prices. The subcommittee nonetheless urged...
From time to time, there were doubts about where the program was heading. In 1975, President Gerald Ford, struggling to hold down the federal deficit, vetoed a bill that would have made even more children eligible for 20? lunches. In the Senate debate that followed, Maryland Republican Charles McC. Mathias wondered whether "we are not witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow demise of yet another American tradition: the brown bag. Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links the child to the home." Brown-bag lunches might not meet federal nutrition standards, he observed...