Re: OT - Nothing at all about Windows or Mac

Used to Cut Welfare Fraud", by Sandra Blakeslee
* The New York Times, April 6 1992
*
* Los Angelos is the first county in the nation to install an automatic
* fingerprint-identification system for ferreting out welfare cheats.
*
* "We can deliver services faster too," said Eddy Tanaka, director of the
* Los Angelos County Department of Public Social Services.
*
* "We will not share the fingerprints with the police or any other government
* agency."
*
* Intrigued by Los Angelos County's program, the New York Legislature
* authorized an identical fingerprint program.


# "Proposal Links Fingerprint Plan and Albany's Medicaid Help"
# By James C. McKinley Jr, The New York Times, 1994?
#
# Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and the majority leader of the State Senate
# have agreed to a plan linking Medicaid with a plan to fingerprint welfare
# recipients.
#
# Later in the day Mr. Giuliani said he would favor allowing law-enforcement
# agencies access to the fingerprint records of welfare recipients.
#
# "You wouldn't want any criminals getting welfare."

So, we'll fingerprint welfare recipients like criminals? Instead of asking
for utility bills and leases in their name to prove residency?

Other states are following suit...Pennsylvania, Florida...


* "A Test for Welfare Fraud Is Expanded to Families"
* By Esther B. Fein, The New York Times, 11/11/95
*
* New York State is sharply increasing the number of people it electronically
* fingerprints to detect welfare fraud past the 285,000 single adult program
* to more than 453,000 recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children.
*
* Of the 220,193