The homemaker services stopped when the family moved into its new home.

Many are entering the job market for the first time with few and often outdated skills, said Martha Everson, the statewide coordinator for displaced homemaker services.

Since then, she said, women without income have been receiving more attention, with the General Assembly earmarking money for displaced homemaker services for the first time.

He Needed Assistance "The thread that runs through our families is severe need," said Mary Hutson, director of homemaker services for the society.

She got no homemaker services, no baby-sitting, no in-home nursing, the person who saw the record said.

Home health aides were paid on average $21 per hour, and homemaker services averaged about $20 per hour.

She soon discovered that a comprehensive agency providing a potpourri of homemaker services was a need not being met in her community .

For the other children, Ms. Green receives help from a homemaker service, 10 hours a day, six days a week, thanks to the Children's Aid Society.

The family center helped her through the transition, providing emergency funds and continuing her homemaker service.

The subcommittee's package includes $1.77 billion to help the states provide child care, protective services for abused children, homemaker services, meals on wheels and other programs.