AFDC


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AFDC

abbr.
Aid to Families with Dependent Children
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AFDC

or A.F.D.C.,

Aid to Families with Dependent Children.
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Translations

AFDC

[ˌeɪɛfdiːˈsiː] n abbr (Am) =Aid to Families with Dependent ChildrenA.F. =assegni familiari
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The production of paper used in Lebanese schools alone creates 4,783 tons of carbon dioxide a year, the AFDC estimates.
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The core of The War on Welfare explores the critically important twenty-year period between 1964 and 1984 in which AFDC became defined as a failed experiment.
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The sensors will be placed in strategic locations in forests in Lebanon, where they will periodically report measurements to an uplink, or internet connection, which sends this information to a website containing a database that is accessible to a central operations center, called the Common Operations Room (COR), which is run by the Civil Defense (Ministry of Interior), the Lebanese Army (Ministry of Defense), the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Environment, and AFDC. The COR was set up by AFDC through a European union-funded project.
It is important to note that since our data cover the period 1991-95, we are only able to look at the effect of welfare benefits for AFDC. However, documenting the impact that AFDC benefits have on default rates has important policy implications for the current welfare system, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), which replaced AFDC in the late 1990s.
We examine the effects of access to employment opportunity, neighborhood and individual characteristics on recidivism of AFDC and TANF recipients.
Families whose incomes and resources exceed the gross income and asset limits set for AFDC or AFDC-UP recipients but who would otherwise qualify for these programs are eligible for Medi-Cal through the MN program.
Social Security (Kansas, 1995) to appreciate all Cohen did in these years to promote Social Security and health care in addition to his masterminding AFDC. That said, From Welfare to Workfare deserves a wide readership, especially for its success in showing how a "silo" mentality and bureaucratic structure have consequences all too predictable when academics, foundations, unions, businesses, policymakers, and lawmakers try to do good.
Under the agreement, AFDC will be the exclusive distributor for Earth Biofuels 100-percent biodiesel product in Oklahoma, and distribute only the Earth Biofuels branded product in the state.
Analogously, one cannot examine bankruptcy without examining its potential interaction with other government programs, such as UI and AFDC.
Because of the absence of time limits and work-related requirements, a smaller proportion of AFDC than TANF recipients worked or participated in work-related activities: 12 percent among AFDC families in 1995 and 38 percent among TANF families in 1999 (Burke, 2000b).