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AFDC during pregnancy

Description: Interview with pregnant girl needing AFDC, which is endangered by state budget cuts. Jack Backman says these benefits are necessary for healthy births. Premature baby in incubator. welfare.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/11/1991

Couple on general relief

Description: Couple with five children on general relief say they do not know what they would do if Weld's proposal to cut the fund is accepted. Welfare office workers.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/26/1991

Ethnic tensions in Lawrence

Description: Profile of changes in Lawrence following an influx of Puerto Rican and other Hispanic immigrants. Interviews with recent arrivals and "old-time" white residents, as well as a representative of Kaps clothing store on the decision to move from its Essex Street location. Mayor Kevin Sullivan attributes the city's difficulties to welfare and a declining middle-class tax base, and warns that the city of Lawrence will "make it very rough" for new arrivals who are unwilling to "contribute."
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/28/1991

Forsberg on cutting services

Description: Human services secretary David Forsberg plans to optimize reduced funds through good management. Charles Mahoney says state carries excess overhead, is bad provider for children. Welfare office workers.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/11/1991

General relief cut proposed

Description: Man with AIDS relies on scant general relief benefits for the disabled for his rent, food, clothing. He is on waiting list for SSI. Cuts are proposed for general relief fund. welfare.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/11/1991

Saddam's staying power

Description: Alexander Dawoody, Kurdish political refugee from Iraq, wants Saddam Hussein eliminated. Middle East expert Feroz Ahmad explains Saddam's staying power through paradox of brutality and welfare.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/19/1991

Scientists debate the war

Description: Five scientists talk about the cost of high tech weapons and the losses incurred in diverting expertise from social welfare and consumer goods. Victor Weisskopf, Vera Kistiakowsky.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/22/1991

Sen. Kennedy, low profile in the nineties

Description: Sen. Edward Kennedy visits Lawrence and Lowell, advocating for children's welfare. He attracts only moderate notice, unlike in the last decade when he was considered a perpetual presidential contender.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/02/1991

Weld's deficit plan

Description: Weld addresses deficit by abolishing MDC, regents, universal health care; raising fees, MBTA fares, state college tuition; tightening welfare eligibility. David Wyss says cuts will not fix state economy.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/31/1991