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Remembering Mr. Hopkins
It was a quiet, spare and simple moment, a timeout from holiday
frenzy. It took place at a quiet, spare and simple place, an
austere family plot among the elaborate hilltop monuments at
Green Mount Cemetery.
It was an altogether fitting tribute to a
quiet, spare and simple, yet tremendously influential, man: Johns
Hopkins.
On Dec. 24, several dozen deans, vice
presidents, faculty and trustees--joined by Sen. Paul Sarbanes,
D-Md., and Mayor Kurt Schmoke, among others--gathered at Green
Mount to pay respects to Hopkins, the Baltimore merchant who died
on Christmas Eve 125 years earlier. His will left $7 million to
establish the university and hospital that now bear his name. It
was the nation's largest philanthropic bequest to that time.
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Examining welfare reform and
families
How will the far-reaching changes in the nation's welfare laws
affect children and families in poor urban neighborhoods? When
parents leave the welfare rolls, will they find steady work? Will
their families face increased hardship? Will their children
benefit or suffer?
These are the questions to be addressed in a
four-year, $19 million study of 3,000 families in Boston, Chicago
and San Antonio by re-searchers at Johns Hopkins and several
other universities. The study, which was officially announced
Dec. 15, begins just as many states will be removing families
from the welfare rolls when their two-year time limits expire in
January 1999.
Andrew Cherlin, the Benjamin H. Griswold III Professor of Public
Policy in the Department of Sociology, will coordinate the
project. Cherlin has written widely about the changing American
family and children's well-being. He will be joined on the
project by Robert Moffitt, a professor in the Department of
Economics and one of the leading experts on the economic effects
of welfare. Both professors have joint appointments in the
Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Public
Health.
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