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Encyclopedia > AFDC

Aid to Families with Dependent Children is a welfare program administered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services. It was created by the Social Security Act of 1935 as part of the New Deal.


External links

  • Aid to Families with Dependent Children (http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/afdc/)



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Child Welfare (3137 words)
Wyoming's demonstration for Aid to Families with Dependent Children is funded and operational; to include component that encourages recipients to enroll in school and receive training for future employment....
HHS announces approval of for California to have no increase in Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) benefits for additional children conceived by a family that is receiving AFDC benefits; exceptions include children born as a result of incest or sexual assault and first-born children of minors already in an AFDC grant....
HHS announces approval of Wiconsin welfare demonstration; the third waiver that required adult Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) applicants to meet with a financial planning specialist to explore alternatives to welfare....
Mission Statement - Future Generations (3968 words)
Again and again, it's predictions are not borne out, and its programs fail utterly.
The welfare program in the United States (AFDC) was intended to eliminate poverty, and ameliorate the host of social problems associated with it.
A major study of its effects reported that it has actually made the problems it was intended to solve worse, while costing taxpayers billions (Murray, 1986).
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