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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (135432)	8/4/2013 12:56:22 PM
From: tejek	1 Recommendation Recommended By Metacomet Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

PS. The answer on wiki is kind of mixed bag on my assertions. Not really. The history doesn't support your thesis. It wasn't until the 1960s that black could even get ADC. By that time the black family unit was in trouble as black men were losing their jobs in the industrial north. This white conspiracy theory that black men left their families so they could ADC is mostly BS. From your link: The program was created under the name Aid to Dependent Children (ADC) by the Social Security Act of 1935 as part of the New Deal. ADC dispensed scant relief to poor single mothers. The federal government authorized case workers, supervisors, and administrators with discretion to determine who received aid and how much. ADC was primarily created for white single mothers who were expected not to work. Black mothers who had always been in the labor force were not considered eligible to receive benefits. [3] The words "families with" were added to the name in 1962, partly due to concern that the program's rules discouraged marriage. [4] The Civil Rights Movement and the efforts of the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO) in the 1960's expanded the scope of welfare entitlements to include Black women. The welfare rolls racial demographics changed drastically. The majority of welfare recipients still remained white and most Black women recipients continued to work. [5] Starting in 1962, the Department of Health and Human Services allowed state-specific exemptions as long as the change was "in the spirit of AFDC" in order to allow some experimentation. By 1996 spending was $24 billion per year. When adjusted for inflation, the highest spending was in 1976, which exceeded 1996 spending by about 8%. [6]