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  • Pat Anstett, Kathy Loftus and Wanda Morris discuss Federal budget cuts

    Mar. 20, 1973

    Pat Anstett, Kathy Loftus and Wanda Morris discuss federal budget cuts to health, education and welfare. Studs and the three ladies talk about how many people are effected by these budget cuts and the programs that will be cut.

  • Robert Theobald

    Interview with Irv Garfinkel and Robert Theobald

    1969

    Interviewing Irv Garfinkel and Robert Theobald (includes Leon Beverly excerpts). The interviewees discuss the welfare system and how it could be changed. Ends with a postscript not intended for broadcast.

  • Frederick Wiseman discusses public welfare

    Feb. 20, 1976

    Discussing public welfare and interviewing Frederick Wiseman, director of the documentary film, "Welfare."

  • Discussing the book "Keeping Women and Children Last: America's War on the Poor" with the author, sociologist Ruth Sidel

    May. 8, 1996
  • Welfare rights

    Discussing and debunking welfare myths with Wilma Green; Lynda Wright, Bottomless Closet board member; Doug Dobmeyer, head of the Illinois Public Welfare Coalition; Margaret Welsh; and journalist Henry De Zutter

    Jun. 22, 1989
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