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Boston Food Bank

Description: Boston Food Bank solicits donations of surplus from supermarkets and food producers to distribute to needy recipients. Cartons of food on conveyor belt and fork lift. Hunger.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/22/1988

Dukakis press conference

Description: Michael Dukakis holds press conference: 1) denounces veto of Civil Rights Restoration Act 2) opposes brokered Democratic convention 3) stresses importance of visiting every primary state even if not favored there 4) discusses allocating state revenues to welfare, ET program, emergency aid to homeless, and assuring affordable housing. Met with anti-crime council regarding furlough policy.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/16/1988

Family Security Act

Description: Family Security Act requires states to provide education, training and jobs, rather than emphasizing welfare payments. Resulting new labor force would be provided Medicaid and child care in return for work.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/17/1988

Lament of welfare recipients

Description: Welfare advocates+recipients want benefits raised above poverty level, instead of being required to work, as Dukakis+Moynihan favor. Women learning to type.AFDC, ET. Charles Atkins,welfare commissioner.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/31/1988

New taxes and human services cuts

Description: Demonstrators on State House steps demand more funding for human services (necessitating new taxes).Dukakis,legislative hearing.Paul Kollios, Frank Keefe, John Houston, Marie Parente, Philip Johnston.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/06/1988

Nuns ousted from Columbia Point

Description: Nuns who ran Project Care & Concern ministry at Columbia Point to distribute food and clothing to low income residents will be replaced by a social service agency. Harbor Point buildings.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/20/1988

Nursing home funding

Description: Medicaid cutbacks will impair nursing homes. Patients, senior citizens, aging. Nurse administers eye drops to elderly woman. Charles Atkins, public welfare commissioner.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/14/1988

South End food pantry

Description: Food pantry operating in South End church provides bags of groceries to needy families. Hunger, poverty.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/22/1988

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