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The Welfare-Reform Proposal
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Item Title The Welfare-Reform Proposal
Guest Moynihan, Daniel P. (Daniel Patrick) (1927-2003)
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Date CreatedOctober 07, 1969
Description

Mr. Moynihan was the architect of the Nixon Administration's Family Assistance Plan (FAP), the first attempt to rationalize the federal welfare system that had grown up under the War on Poverty. This hour offers a vivid exploration of the whole welfare mess and the plight of the working poor. DPM: "I had just left the Washington Administration of President Johnson, and I remember noticing ... a little announcement in the paper that Head Start-something new, hadn't been heard of-was going to begin this summer in New York, under the poverty program, and that the union scale for Head Start teachers would be $9.75 an hour. And I'm a good trade unionist, and I'm for those teachers, but ... I said, you know, here we are paying nice college girls ... $9.75 an hour to teach the children of men we won't pay $2 an hour. Now what kind of sense exactly is that? ... And of course five years later we find that very little got taught, that there was no change in the outcome."

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Country of Origin
Place RecordedWashington, District of Columbia, United States
DimensionsDuration: 50 minutes
FormatText
Medium television programs
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Color
color
Soundtrack
sound
Hoover IDProgram 170
Record Number80040.170
NotesVideo available through special order.
RightsCopyright held by Stanford University. This copy is provided for educational and research purposes only. No publication, further reproduction, or reuse of copies, beyond fair use, may be made without the express written permission of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives on behalf of Stanford University.

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