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3443
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In 1996, Congress passed welfare reform legislation. Changes affecting the state include giving more responsibility to state and local governments, restricting welfare from full to temporary assistance, and determining where funding will come from.
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Popular Government (NoCar JK 4101 P6), Vol. 62 Issue 4, Summer 1997, p15-27, il, f
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4367
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In passing the 1996 Welfare Reform Act, Congress made sweeping changes in public assistance programs. Congress also placed restrictions on the benefit eligibility of migrants, distinguishing between \"nonqualified\" and \"qualified\" aliens. Public benefits, including food stamps and Supplemental Security Income (SSI), for both of these groups were curtailed. Follow-up legislation sought to provide exceptions to the 1996 law so that humanitarian assistance could be provided
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Popular Government (NoCar JK 4101 P6), Vol. 65 Issue 1, Fall 1999, p22-29, il, f
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4368
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While the 1996 Welfare Reform Act identifies aliens who are not eligible to receive certain types of public assistance, it does not identify which benefits are available to all aliens. Moore summarizes the current state of the law as it applies in North Carolina. Also listed are federal, state, and local benefits for which immigrants are eligible.
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Popular Government (NoCar JK 4101 P6), Vol. 65 Issue 1, Fall 1999, p35-37, il, f
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Record #:
17618
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Surplus food, which the Department of Agriculture could not sell, was siphoned into a federally controlled surplus food program that had a hierarchy of distribution; first the school lunch program, then eligible citizens, and lastly to foreign nations. As of October 1960, no county in the state participated but arrangements for such a program were being established between the State Board of Public Welfare and the Department of Agriculture.
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Popular Government (NoCar JK 4101 P6), Vol. 27 Issue 2, Oct 1960, p10-18, il
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17930
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Although there was little public welfare legislation to discuss in the 1957 North Carolina General Assembly, bills relating to eugenics and sterilization were a hot topic.
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