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Welfare office

Description: State welfare office interiors. Receptionist takes calls on multiline rotary dial phone. Women workers at metal desks in groups of four. File cabinets stuffed with manila folders of paperwork. Form for assistance payments. Staff person talks to client/applicant in Spanish. Interviews with two supervisors about qualifications for social work jobs.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/15/1977

Welfare policy

Description: Welfare recipients plead with state to raise their benefits to the poverty level. Mothers with placards. Sen. John Houston, public welfare commissioner Charles Atkins.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/15/1988

Welfare workers demand aid

Description: Welfare mothers chant, march and set up soup line on State House steps to protest legislature's lethargy in increasing their aid. They demand turkeys from governor but are served only Catherine Dunham.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/22/1988

Workfare debate

Description: Welfare mother shouts at Rep. Nicholas Paleologos in public hearing on workfare. Rep. Marjorie Clapprood defends welfare mothers and puts down Paleologos.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/27/1990