Word: earners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest single expense, now totaling $1.5 billion, or 23% of the $6.5 billion budget. The number of people on relief has doubled, to roughly 1,000,000, and although city officials contend that the rate of increase is now slowing appreciably, this is scant consolation to the wage earner of moderate means who knows that one out of eight New Yorkers is getting welfare help. "Work is the answer to an awful lot of the problems we have here," says Procaccino typically, "just plain hard work...
...Sniadach of Milwaukee by taking $31.59 from her $65 weekly pay, she ap pealed to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund for help. Wisconsin's garnishment statute, similar to those in 16 other states, allows a creditor to tie up as much as 50% of a salary earner's wages even before a debt has been proved. Often, far more than a weekly bite is involved; the U.S. Department of Labor estimates that employers fire between 100,000 and 300,000 workers each year because of wage garnishments...
...average, middle-class wage earner of America was as disgusted as I was after reading the account of "Hunger" [May 16], then I would imagine that it was one of the most self-damaging displays yet staged by those on welfare rolls. With reference to the "filth-encrusted" gymnasium, what is preventing the underprivileged from cleaning up the place? And as for the food stamps being "more trouble than they're worth," most of us have to exert ourselves to some extent to get food for our tables-some of us even have jobs. The biggest mistake the Government...
...free of superstition; who would have thought that a story that takes the devil seriously could become a smash? Yet Rosemary's Baby was not only a bestseller as a book, but already ranks among the top 50 alltime movie hits. The Graduate has become the third largest money earner ($40 million) in movie history...
...quietly advising some ex-sisal farmers that they can have their plantations back. The government has decided that it is better, after all, for the individual entrepreneur to lose money than for it to take a beating in its budget. Sisal used to be Tanzania's largest export earner: it brought in $61 million as recently as 1964. With slipping prices, the fibers accounted for only $36 million by 1967. Even at that, Tanzania has admitted that it has been losing $17 on every ton of sisal sold...