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Welfare, ground zero: Michigan tries to end it all
Conniff, Ruth | May 27, 1996 issue

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The article presents information on the social security and welfare in the U.S. For the able-bodied people who lost their General Assistance checks, becoming "independent" of the welfare system was a disaster. Approximately 20,000 former recipients were evicted and homelessness increased throughout the state, according to a study by the Michigan League for Human Services. Before the cutoff, 2 percent of G.A. recipients were homeless. By the summer of 1992, half the former recipients surveyed reported a period of homelessness lasting between three and six months. Most did not find jobs.

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SOCIAL security; HOMELESSNESS; POVERTY; SOCIAL policy; WELFARE state; UNITED States
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