Public Welfare articles from January 1993

Public Welfare archives from January 1993

Fifty years of Public Welfare. (periodical)
January 1, 1993... "WE STAND IN THE STREAM OF TIME WITH SOME MARVELOUS COMPANY." An early photograph in the American Public Welfare Association's archives shows APWA constituents listening attentively to a conference speaker. The speaker--a large, gap-toothed...

A letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt. (originally published in January 1943 in this journal)
January 1, 1993... THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON November 23, 1942 My dear Mr. Patterson: Will you please extend my greetings and good wishes to the members of the National Council of State Public Assistance and Welfare Administrators and the National Council...

Goals for children and youth as we move from war to peace. (originally published in June 1944 in this journal)
January 1, 1993... The following statement was adopted March 17-18, 1944, by the Children's Bureau Commission on Children in Wartime and was originally published in June 1944. After more than two years of war, the families and communities of our Nation are being...

"You haven't lived here long enough." (social welfare benefits for migrants)(originally published September 1948 in this journal)
January 1, 1993... This editorial on residency laws appeared in September 1948. The year was 1675. Refugees deluged Boston in the wake of King Philip's War. These needy outsiders found themselves unable to get relief from the local authorities. At once a law was...

A letter from Harry S. Truman. (originally published January 1950 in this journal)
January 1, 1993... President Truman wrote to APWA President Joseph E. Baldwin on the occasion of APWA's 1949 Round Table Conference. The letter was published in January 1950. THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON Dear Mr. Baldwin: I am happy to take this opportunity...

Working mothers in the Aid to Dependent Children program. (originally published in Jauly 1952 in this journal)
January 1, 1993... Alice E. Mertz was casework training director, Bureau of Public Assistance, Department of Charities, Los Angeles County, California, when this article was published in July 1952. In many parts of the country, through law and regulation, it is...

Should father have a mother's pension? (originally published in July 1952 in this journal)
January 1, 1993... At the time this article was published, Sanford Bates was commissioner of the New Jersey State Department of Institutions and Agencies. The article was published in July 1952. The New Jersey State Board of Child Welfare, an agency of the...

A letter from Dwight D. Eisenhower. (originally published on January 1954 in this journal)
January 1, 1993... Written on the occasion of APWA's 1953 Round Table Conference, this letter was published in January 1954. THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON Mr. John Winters, President American Public Welfare Association Edgewater Beach Hotel Chicago, Illinois...

A salute to 25 years of social security. (originally published in January 1960 in this journal)
January 1, 1993... Twenty-six years ago, in the depth of the worst business depression of American history, I was a student in the Department of Economics at the University of Wisconsin, in Professor Edwin E. Witte's freewheeling seminar on Wisconsin's economic...

A dream translated to reality. (social welfare programs)(originally published in July 1960 in this journal)
January 1, 1993... It hardly seems possible that a quarter of a century has elapsed since that hot, humid, August noontime when President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act. It is impossible to convey to persons who were not adult in 1935, when...

A letter from John F. Kennedy. (originally published in January 1962)
January 1, 1993... THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON November 21, 1961 Dear Mr. Steininger: It gives me great pleasure to send greetings to the American Public Welfare Association as you assemble for your National Round Table Conference. Over the years your...

Address by the Secretary of Labor. (Arthur J. Goldberg)(originally published in January 1962 in this journal)
January 1, 1993... Arthur J. Goldberg was secretary of labor in the Kennedy Administration when he made this speech. Published in January 1962, Secretary Goldberg's address was delivered before APWA's National Round Table Conference in December 1961. In his...

Public services and private trust. (originally published in January 1964 in this journal)
January 1, 1993... NBC commentator and journalist David Brinkley spoke about civil rights before the 1963 National Round Table Conference. His remarks, abridged here, were published in January 1964. I do not know anything about the public welfare profession,...

A letter from Lyndon B. Johnson. (originally published in January 1964 in thisjournal)
January 1, 1993... President Johnson's letter was presented to the 1963 National Round Table Conference less than two weeks after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. It was published in January 1964. THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON Mr. Guy R. Justis President...

New weapons in fighting poverty. (originally published in January 1966 in this journal)
January 1, 1993... R. Sargent Shriver, Jr., was director of the Peace Corps and director of the Office of Economic Opportunity when he delivered this message at APWA's 1965 National Round Table Conference. The speech appeared in the January 1966 issue of PUBLIC...

Child abuse: issues and answers. (originally published in Spring 1974 in this journal)
January 1, 1993... This article was published in the spring of 1974, when Senator Mondale (D-Minnesota) was chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Children and Youth. He introduced the Child Care Prevention and Treatment Act, which was signed into law by President...

The food stamp program: its history and reform. (originally published in summer 1977 in this journal)
January 1, 1993... Jodie T. Allen was senior vice president of Mathematica Policy Research, a national research and development firm, when this article was published in the summer of 1977. Sometime this summer, perhaps even before this is published, the...

Measuring poverty. (originally published in spring of 1978 in this journal)
January 1, 1993... In the spring of 1978, Mollie Orshansky and others joined in a round table session to explore some of the issues intrinsic in determining an official poverty line. When this article was published, the author was with the Office of Research and...

Four pennies to my name: what it's like on welfare. (originally published in Spring of 1979 in this journal)
January 1, 1993... I had to get up at 3:30 and start getting the kids dressed. It was cool that morning and I didn't have a coat for Sam. I decided to use Sally's coat that Aunt Jean had given her two years ago. He wouldn't know the difference, and I could care...

Social policy and the poor: fifty years of looking ahead. (originally published in fall of 1980 in this journal)
January 1, 1993... I accepted this assignment knowing that in so many ways I speak as a substitute. I am a surrogate for many voices. I'm a surrogate for a case aide in Mississippi; a supervisor in Anchorage, Alaska; an income maintenance worker in St....

Social Security at 50. (Social Security Act)(originally published in fall of 1985 in this journal)
January 1, 1993... In its fiftieth year, the Social Security Act is a subject of controversy. Many people argue that its objectives are confused: its public assistance programs do not properly assist and its social insurances do not properly insure....

Work for people on welfare. (originally published in winter of 1986 in this journal)
January 1, 1993... For the past twenty-five years, administrators, legislators, and academics have debated the appropriate design of the nation's welfare system, particularly the federally supported Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program.(1) A...

If CPS is driving child welfare - where do we go from here? (child protection services)(originally published in winter of 1990 in this journal)
January 1, 1993... As we enter the 1990s, child protective services (CPS) has emerged as the dominant child and family social service provided by public agencies. Some would argue that CPS in effect is driving the child welfare system, often taking it over...