Word: programing
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...Governor Ronald Reagan described welfare in 1971. He has been waging war on that system of public support ever since. Now, as President, Reagan wants to eliminate the "legitimate fraud" of people who, he says, are fit to work but who qualify for the dole. His solution: workfare, a program in which able-bodied welfare recipients take community public service jobs to repay part of the value of their benefits...
Various forms of workfare have been tried before, with limited success. Reagan cites California's Community Work Experience Program, which he claims put 75,000 people to work during his tenure as Governor. Yet records show that only about 9,600 welfare recipients received jobs. "It was essentially a leaf-raking operation," says California Legislative Analyst Tom Dooley. The program was allowed to expire...
Since 1968, the Department of Labor has overseen federal Work Incentive programs (WIN), which provide job training for welfare recipients, primarily women with children. One of the most successful has been in San Antonio, where half of 150 participants were moved off the welfare rolls in a year on a budget of only $200,000. WIN offered day care to mothers. Minnesota has had a Work Equity Program (WEP) that has trained more than 6,000 unemployed. Experts estimate that for every $1,000 spent for WEP counseling, $10,000 was saved in direct welfare expenditures. Milwaukee County...
...death among black males 24 to 34. (For white males in that age group, it is car and motorcycle accidents.) Black men are eight times as likely to die in a homicide as are white men. Says Lynn Curtis, former director of the Interagency Urban Initiatives Anti-Crime Program: "The typical violent crime involves two young black males who know each other and get into trivial altercations, which lead to serious injury because they both have weapons...
...three ceremonies were being held to celebrate the first anniversary, and the relative success so far, of the country's land-reform program. The haciendas visited by junta members were among the 283 estates that have been expropriated since last March and converted into cooperatives farmed by 40,000 peasants. The recent harvest has not been spectacular, but it was surprisingly satisfactory-especially in view of the disruptions caused by the land-reform process itself and the violence from both left and right...