We need both and we desparately need each other. State Spotlight . . . Dollars previously spent on monthly welfare checks will be shifted to job training and child care. Counties will design their own programs, time limits and work requirements. Counties have the option of providing cash aid to families that need help after they have exhausted their benefits.
Counties keep the money they save by getting people off welfare.
A state appeals court Aug. 25 upheld Wilsons plan to cut off prenatal care for 70,000 illegal immigrant women on an emergency basis, scheduled to take effect Nov. 1. The ruling could set a precedent as the Wilson administration proceeds with aggressive plans to deny illegal immigrants access to more than 200 other state services, from mental health care to fishing licenses. About 70,000 undocumented women now receiving state-subsidized prenatal care will be off by Dec. 1 . New applicants will be unable to qualify as of Nov. 1.Virtually all non-emergency public aid to not qualified immigrantsa group consisting mostly of illegal immigrants but including many with temporary legal statushas been cut. Rules for these Proposition 187-like cutoffsincluding a new residency verification system for everyone applying for state benefitsmight not be ready until next year.