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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Energy and Commerce. – 1987
This report recommends that the Social Security Act Title XIX be amended to include a 24-month extension of Medicaid to families who become ineligible for cash assistance under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program. This amendment accompanies the Family Welfare Reform Act of 1987 (H.R. 1720), which is proposed to replace the…
Descriptors: Employed Parents, Employment, Employment Problems, Family Financial Resources
Mink, Gwendolyn – 1998
During the 1920s, progressive women activists invented welfare to help mothers and their children survive when breadwinning fathers either died or abandoned their families. During the 1930s, the local mothers' pension programs of the Progressive Era became part of the emerging national welfare state, which was conceived to relieve poor single…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Economic Change, Employed Women, Family Life
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Energy and Commerce. – 1988
Two hearings held a month apart examine major issues concerning Medicaid benefits in family welfare and nursing home reform. The first set of hearings discusses the proposed Family Welfare Reform Act of 1987 (H.R. 1720), which is intended to replace the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program of the Social Security Act Title IV.…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Employed Parents, Employed Women, Employment Problems