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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

Children's television

Description: Peggy Charren of Action for Children's Television urges more educational content + fewer commercials in children's programming. Three 9 year olds tell why they enjoy tv.Cartoons,Capt. Kangaroo,Sesame Street.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/23/1991

Dr. Jonathan Fine on Iraq

Description: Upon return from Iraq, where he surveyed and documented war devastation, Dr. Jonathan Fine of Physicians for Human Rights describes dire need for food, medicine, water, electricity. Injured children.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/19/1991

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

Scope of local hunger

Description: Shoshana Pakciarz of Project Bread says that one fourth of the state's children suffer from hunger. Brookline food pantry at St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Walk for Hunger.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/16/1991

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