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Fairness. See Distributive justice

Families:

economically self-sustaining, 14 ;

instability in, 12 -13, 104 , 112 , 120 , 143 , 145 (See also Divorce);

migration of, 112 , 148 ;

nuclear, 14 ;

self-sufficiency lost by, 14 , 15 , 44 .

See also Children; Fathers; Mothers; Single-parent households


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Family Assistance Plan (FAP), 105 , 120

Family planning programs, 110

FAP (Family Assistance Plan), 105 , 120

Fathers, and AFDC, 104 , 112

Federal government, 3 , 70 ;

and ADC, 103 ;

and AFDC, 111 , 115 -16, 196 n29;

employment by, 87 , 149 -50;

and medical care, 124 -25, 131 -32, 136 , 138 -39;

poverty measured by, 20 , 69 , 169 n8, 194 n9;

and social security, 83 -84, 87 , 90 , 93 , 94 , 95 .

See also Congress, U.S.; individual agencies

Federal Security Agency, 84

Fee-for-service, medical, 129 , 153

Feinberg, Joel, 27

Feldstein, Martin, 53 -54, 192 n42

Feudalism, 60

Finance Committee, Senate, 85

Financial shortfalls:

Medicare, 130 ;

personal episodic, 15 -18;

social security, 86 , 88 -89, 94 , 100 .

See also Poverty

First Amendment rights, 68

Focused comparison technique, 5 , 81

Food needs, 68 , 69

Food stamps, 12 , 19 , 48 , 50 , 107 , 109 , 195 n13

Ford administration, 117

France, 54

Freedom. See Liberty


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