New Jersey will suffer because 1it is nationally recognized that the number of welfare recipients has been maintained at a low level in New Jersey and 2New Jersey has the third highest rate of inmigration in the nation. Freeze on Federal participation would place the entire cost of increased loads on State. county and municipal governments. The cities in the l1th Congressional District and Essex County. in which they are located. are already assuming a disproportionate share of public welfare costs caused chiefly by immigration from rural areas. A real fiscal crisis confronts these communities which will be further aggravated by the restrictions on Federal participation contained in this legislation. The conference report before this House today falls far short of what we owe to the retired and to the poor in our affluent society.
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