Since 1996, the number of welfare recipients has fallen by nearly60 percent, poverty and hunger have declined, and states haveenjoyed more leeway in structuring their welfare administrations.Even though benefit levels and economic growth have had relativelylittle to do with the large decline in welfare caseloads since1996, it appears that they do affect year-to-year fluctuations incaseloads.
It is our pleasure, therefore, that those prices, which the concise items in the following list indicate, be held in attention throughout our whole domain, in such a way that all men understand that freedom to exceed them is removed.
(Archived document, may contain errors) 138 April 6, 1988 THE AMERICAN FAMILY AND DAY-CARE INTRODUCTION Congress has found yet another "crisis" to solve. This time Congress contends that there is a critical shortage of day-care in the United States. To deal with this, Senator Christopher J. Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat, and Congressman Dale Kildee, a Michigan Democrat, have fashioned what they call the "Act for Better Child Care" or ABC bill (S. 1886 and H.R. 3660).