Description: Two welfare mothers talk about AFDC benefits far below poverty level and the need to work to supplement income and support family. Workfare. Philip Johnston.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/27/1990
Description: Exterior of welfare office at 1491 Tremont Street in Roxbury. “Overseers of the Public Welfare” inscribed above entrance. Several people, mostly black, walk by and enter and exit the building.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/15/1977
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
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
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
Description: Aerials of Western Massachusetts. Berkshire Mountains, Deerfield River, North Adams. (1989)
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 1989
Description: Compilation reel: Westfield State College president Francis Pilecki charged with homosexual assault on student and offering hush money. Regents. David Beaubien, Edward Lashman, Rudolph Pierce, Gerard Indelicato.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/19/1986
Description: Compilation reel:Westfield State College president Francis Pilecki charged with homosexual assault on student and offering hush money. Regents. Edward Lashman, David Beaubien, Rudolph Pierce.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/06/1986
Description: Sen. William Bulger proposes Weston quarry for incinerator site. Community reax. trash collection.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/17/1987
Description: Apartment building in Weymouth burned down just around corner f/fire station closed for lack of funds. Quincy fire caused deaths because responding nearby station had no ladder truck. Fire stations both towns.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/06/1991