Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation Aid to Families with Dependent Children
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- initialism US Aid to Families with Dependent Children
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Examples
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After decades of doling out trillions in AFDC and other entitlements to a permanent underclass, in the name of avoiding "social unrest," how could spending a few more billion hurt, in the name of "preserving neighborhoods"?
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Administration officials are still divided over just how many long-term AFDC recipients should be exempted from the two-years-and-out requirement.
The Entitlement Trap 2008
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Clinton and his advisers are now engaged in an excruciating internal debate over just how to treat these long-term AFDC recipients.
The Entitlement Trap 2008
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It may be called someting else, but as an attorney who works primarily for DSS, I can assure you that welfare is alive and well, even if it called AFDC or Medicaid (MAF, MAO, MIC).
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Like what used to be called AFDC and is now called TANF in North
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And what government subsidy do we all incur because their underpaid workers remain eligible for assistance such as AFDC, medicaid, etc.?
Marketplace 2009
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And what government subsidy do we all incur because their underpaid workers remain eligible for assistance such as AFDC, medicaid, etc.?
Marketplace 2009
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The Gingrich plan would extend the overwhelming proven success of the 1996 AFDC block-grant reforms to all remaining federal, means-tested programs, 185 such programs by my count, sending welfare entirely back to the states.
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But under the 1996 AFDC reforms, the cost to federal taxpayers was cut in half, while the poor benefited with higher incomes through work.
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Basically no one is proposing that we bring back AFDC.
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