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Issues

The problems of poverty are as diverse as the people experiencing it. Click to learn more about the issues that welfare rights activists tackled in Cleveland.

Housing

School Lunches

School Clothing

AFDC Allowances

Ten Commandments for a Mother on Welfare

by an Ohio woman on ADC

Printed in Ohio Adequate Welfare News, June 1967

1. Thou shall give thy children what they need--but don't spend over 73¢ a day.

2. Thou shall have furniture--if glue will hold it together.

3. Thou shall live in a real nice house--in the slums.

4. Thou shall clothe thy children--as long as their clothes are rags.

5. Thou shall send they children to school but don't give them any supplies.

6. Thou shall feed thy children--but don't give them meat.

7. Thou shall not buy any underclothes--no one sees them.

8. Thou shall not give they children spending money--let them beg.

9. Thou shall not ride a bus up-town--walk!

10. Thou shall not get sick--just die!