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> Senator Mike Mansfield has introduced a bill that would pay up to $25,000 apiece to victims of federal crimes, then empower the Justice Department to sue convicted offenders to recover the money. States would get federal grants to copy the plan. Of all U.S. offenses, 87% are property crimes...
Volpe may have been exaggerating in order to gain support for an Administration bill to aid the Penn Central and other impoverished railroads. That measure would empower the Transportation Department to underwrite up to $750 million in private loans. Volpe said that four or five more railroads might soon follow...
In his latest book, Two-Factor Theory: the Economics of Reality (coauthored by Patricia Hetter), Kelso maintains that the American system is "coming apart" because of its "defective financial and economic framework." One of his most potent arguments is historical. Until the close of the frontier, even the poorest laborer...
Jump in Subsidies. The most controversial item by far in the Administration's 1970 housing bill, the measure would carry the U.S. a step closer to the adoption of a national policy for more rational use of land to control the country's chaotic patterns of growth. The...
The bill would also empower the state to construct housing-25 per cent of which would be low and moderate income-on large unused tracts throughout Massachusetts. It provides for extensive use of eminent domain to procure land for housing, and would allow bypassing of "restrictive" building codes and zoning...