Number of Welfare Recipients in Madison County, NY Has Decreased By 74%But Still ‘Living on the Edge’
July 29, 2002 Number of Welfare Recipients in Madison County, NY Has Decreased By 74% But Still 'Living on the Edge' A new study of upstate New York families, former welfare or cash assistance recipients, found that although the number of families on assistance has decreased by 74 percent since 1995 in Madison County, New York, most former welfare recipients are still "living on the edge." Written by Colgate economics chair Jill Tiefenthaler and undertaken with the Community Action Program for Madison County, New York, and the Madison County Department of Social Services, the Madison County Welfare to Work Study . . .