By placing a freeze on the number of AFDC children for whom States can receive matching Federal funds. the conference committee report ignores population migration patterns which are caused by forces of national scope. such as unemployment. automation. and the decline of rural wages and jobs. Many large cities have become inmigration areas. Because the migrants generally come from deprived areas. are functionally illiterate. untrained. and lacking in employable skills. many of them become almost immediately. welfare cases. My own State of New Jersey has the third highest rate of inmigration in the Nation. with the heaviest flow moving into the older cities. In protesting the conference committee bill. officials of Essex County.
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Migrants are described as functionally illiterate, untrained, and lacking employable skills, leading to welfare dependency.