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Welfare

Description: Leader: P2 Welfare #10714 12/9/74; An audience listens to speakers. A meeting with the Department of Welfare about their budget and a cost of living increase for Massachusetts welfare recipients. Several people testify about the need to increase welfare benefits by 12% to keep up with the rising cost of living. Footage includes Steven Minter (Commissioner of Public Welfare of Massachusetts) and Peter Goldmark (State Human Services Secretary).
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/09/1974

Welfare Cuts

Description: B-roll from a meeting of the Alliance for Economic Justice on Massachusetts budget cuts and welfare proposals. A woman speaks at the meeting on the poor treatment of the elderly. A man says the tax cuts will benefit the white suburbs, not the urban minorities. A state official addresses a crowd, asking for the people to give the government a chance to perform before criticizing. A man speaks against Governor Dukakis's proposed economic plans. Another man speaks against State Senator Kelly. Mix of silent and sound.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/24/1975

Welfare Oil Meeting

Description: Leader: P2 Welfare Oil Meeting #6846 12/21/73; Interview with Welfare Commissioner Steven Minter about possible aid for families struggling with fuel costs and worried about their finances in the energy crisis. Silent b-roll of the meeting. More of the interview with Minter.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 12/21/1973

Welfare Protest

Description: "Leader: "P1 Welfare Protest #7450 2/28/74"; Silent footage of a group of people with signs protest in front of a the Washington-Essex building in Boston. Shot of the door for the AFL-CIO."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 02/28/1974

Welfare for illegal aliens

Description: Rep. Chet Atkins proposes to end welfare payments to illegal aliens to save state $1 million per year.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/17/1989

Welfare in New Hampshire

Description: Public assistance requests have increased greatly in New Hampshire. People fill out applications in Nashua welfare office. Food stamps in booklets.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/28/1990

Welfare mothers react to workfare

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

Welfare office

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

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