"Having the Power, We Have the Duty": Report to the Secretary of Health, Education, and WelfareU.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1966 - 148 pages |
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Page 15 - I believe that the American people feel that with the high production of which we are now capable, there is enough left over to prevent extreme hardship and maintain a minimum standard floor under subsistence, education, medical care and housing, to give to all a minimum standard of decent living and to all children a fair opportunity to get a start in life.
Page xii - Welfare, the inadequacies in social services: are themselves a major source of such social evils as crime and juvenile delinquency, mental illness, illegitimacy, multi-generational dependency, slum environments, and the widely deplored climate of unrest, alienation, and discouragement among many groups in the population.
Page 76 - President in the budget of the United States Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969. The bill would authorize appropriations to be made to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the sum of $4,370,400,000, as follows: (1) for "Research and development...
Page xviii - ... child welfare." The Council proposes that these services be extended to all who need them on the basis of a legally enforceable right. Historically child welfare services have been centered on the most obviously vulnerable child: the child left without adequate adult protection because of death, illness, desertion, neglect, abuse, or inadequacy on the part of one or both parents. Substitute care has been provided in the form of placement in a foster home or institution or through adoption. Recently...
Page xiii - Applicants for aid would establish their initial eligibility by personal statements or simple inquiry relating to their financial situation and family composition, subject only to subsequent sample review conducted in such manner as to protect their dignity, privacy, and constitutional rights.
Page 114 - Secretary) a full-time student or part-time student who is not a full-time employee attending a school, college, or university, or a course of vocational or technical training designed to fit him for gainful employment...
Page 24 - Only a relatively small segment of the needy are now helped by public assistance programs — about one-fifth of those in families having an annual income of less than $3,000. This is largely because (1) there are gaps in the categories of needy people included within the public assistance titles of the Social Security Act; (2) some States are not financially able or do not wish to participate in all programs...
Page xii - Public assistance payments are so low and so uneven that the Government is, by its own standards and definitions, a major source of the poverty on which it has declared unconditional war. • Large numbers of those in desperate need, including many children, are excluded even from this level of aid by arbitrary eligibility requirements unrelated to need such as those based on age, family situation, degree of disability, alleged...
Page 118 - ... Programs. It is the conviction of the Advisory Council on Public Welfare that the adoption of a single uniform formula, which reverses the responsibilities of the Federal and State governments for basic financial support and which recognizes varying State fiscal capacities and effort, is essential. The Advisory Council on Public Welfare Recommends Prompt Extension of Coverage and Liberalization of Benefits Under the Social Insurance Programs. The Advisory Council on Public Welfare is of the opinion...
Page xi - ... an ultimate guarantee against poverty and social deprivation. Its role in society is to assure to individuals, families, and communities the recognized basic essentials of living within a framework of related governmental and voluntary measures. The Council observed that — All societies in order to survive must make provision for these needs within the limits of their resources and social pattern. The United States is, however, distinguished from other countries in the degree to which unprecedented...