Children And Poor Speech

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Children and Poor Speech

Speech to focus on plans to help children, poor

January 19, 1999

President Clinton will propose in his State of the Union address tonight a $1
billion expansion of the federal government's efforts to help the nation's most disadvantaged
families move from welfare to work, White House officials said Monday.

The officials said the initiative will help about 200,000 welfare families get jobs.

``Despite the enormous progress we have made in the last few years in moving people from welfare
to work, we need to make an extra effort for the people still on the rolls because they will be the
hardest to place,'' said presidential adviser Bruce Reed.

The initiative is aimed at increasing employment of low-income, absent fathers of children on
welfare, so they can pay child support and get involved in their children's lives. Many of these
fathers have prison records, and only 30 percent have held a job in the past year, according to a
recent study. Only about 10 percent to 15 percent of children on public assistance receive any formal
child support from their absent parent.

Clinton also plans to propose a tax credit of up to $500 per child, age 1 or younger, to offset costs
for parents who choose to stay home to care for their kids. The proposal is part of a larger child care
package that seeks $18 billion over five years to aid working poor and middle-class families.

The administration also will propose $1 billion over five years to improve health care for many of
the nation's 32 million uninsured adults. The money wou...

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