Replying to a message of Carol Shenkenberger to bob klahn:

 bk>>  I was wondering, because I have heard a lot of complaints about
 bk>>  all the assistance cuban imigrants got, but poor americans got
 bk>>  sink or swim. I didn't know it was true until now.

 CS> It was a 'sink or swim' time for all then.  Welfare abuse was nominal
 CS> because  it wasnt really available that same way til around 1970 and
 CS> later right?                                        xxcarol

A bit before that, I think.  The feds jumped into the welfare business big time
in the 1960s, the stated reason was because the various states had different
programs, different levels of benefits and different eligibility rules.  California,
for instance, was quite generous WRT welfare; I can remember my parents
griping - in the late 1950s - about people living on welfare for two and three
generations, and about people moving to California solely to get in on the welfare
programs.  That was not quite half a century ago and the problem has only
become worse since then.

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