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Published on 09/01/1997 All articles from this issue

Welfare reform is subject of League-AAUW forum

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Town Crier Staff Report

The Leagues of Women Voters of Palo Alto and Los Altos-Mountain View, along with the American Association of University Women, Palo Alto chapter, will host a panel of experts Sept. 10 in Palo Alto to discuss welfare reform and its impact on Santa Clara County.

County officials estimate some 68,000 residents, nearly 70 percent of them children, will lose welfare benefits.

"The impacts are real financially and real socially in terms of what happens in the community," said county supervisor Joe Simitian in a June televised presentation.

The public forum, titled, "The Challenge of Welfare Reform," will be held in the fellowship hall, First Presbyterian Church, 1140 Cowper (located at Cowper and Lincoln between Embarcadero and University avenues).

Refreshments will be served at 7 p.m. The program runs from 7:30-9 p.m. For more information, call The League of Women Voters at 941-4846.