Income security and public assistance for women and children

About this book

The federal government is confronted with a great challenge: to cut expenditures for welfare programs and to invest more public resources in the nation's children if the country is to have a future workforce with the skills necessary to compete in the global economy and to support the impending retirees of the baby-boom generation, each of whom will have to be supported by only two workers, instead of the current three (Board of Trustees, 1995).