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Up from Dependency: A New National Public Assistance Strategy. Supplement 1: The National Public Assistance System. Volume 1: An Overview of the Current System.
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Germanis, Peter; Bavier, Richard – 1986
This report provides an overview of the current welfare system. The number and size of federal public assistance programs have increased during the past 25 years, with particular growth in noncash benefit programs, which now constitute about three-quarters of all means-tested assistance. From mid-1983 to mid-1984, more than 52.5 million Americans…
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