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...Congressional Budget Office figures, overall tax rates on middle-income families have fallen over the past few years and are currently at their 20-year average--there seems no pressing need to reduce taxes on this group above all others. Since the income tax does not have much effect on the poor, it need not be the center of all tax proposals; a better means of tax reduction would include a negative income tax on those for whom excise and payroll taxes are the greatest burden...
Turkel says she does not blame D'Alessandro for working only "intermittently" to fulfill the committee's requests but says she worried about the effect of the backlog...
...effect, this proposal would nullify the excise tax and all tolls paid by state residents. This proposal will reduce the state's revenues by $742 million...
...Texas, public universities have managed to counteract the effect of racial-preference bans by automatically admitting the top 10% of the graduating class of every high school, including those schools where most students are minorities. But Rice University in Houston, private and highly selective, has had to reinvent its admissions strategies to maintain the school's minority enrollment. Each February, 80 to 90 black, Hispanic and Native American kids visit Rice on an expenses-paid trip. Rice urges counselors from high schools with large minority populations to nominate qualified students. And in the fall, Rice sends two recruiters...
While minority admissions at the University of California system overall have dipped only slightly since a ban on affirmative action took effect in 1998, they have plummeted at the most selective campuses. At Berkeley, for example, the class entering this fall included 608 Chicano students, vs. 1,013 in 1997. In response, the elite schools have moved aggressively to recruit at minority high schools--and even to improve the performance of students who are graduating from them. This year the U.C. system will spend $250 million on outreach, from installing tutors at low-income schools to inviting high school teachers...