Sanford Solender, executive vice-president of the National Jewish Welfare Board, has been appointed by Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Anthony J. Celebrezze a member of the newly-created 12-member Advisory Council on Public Welfare, to review the Federal Government’s public assistance and child welfare programs.
The Council is required to complete its work and make a report to the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare no later than July 1, 1966, and then go out of existence. The purpose of the Council is to review the status of the public assistance and child welfare programs for which Federal funds are appropriated, and to make recommendations with respect to the Federal and State fiscal responsibilities in financing these programs. These programs represent expenditures of over $4,500,000,000 by Federal, State and local governments.
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