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...appearance of Mark Feldstein's article "A Kibbutz Diary From the Invasion of Southern Lebanon" in last Wednesday's Crimson reflects either a deliberate case of media perversion, or, hopefully, a lack of discernment or responsibility on The Crimson's part to avoid carrying articles that present biased distortions rather than substantive perspectives on heated political issues. It is rather pathetic that this newspaper chose to publish this diary-type article on such a weighted issue as the dilemma of Palestinian-Israeli confrontation along the southern Lebanese-northern Israeli border, because the article's limited and distorting scope essentially reduces...
...Mark A. Feldstein '78, a Crimson editor on leave this year, was working as a volunteer on a kibbutz in northern Israel in March when the Israeli army moved into Lebanon...
...members of the selection committee, who were elected by other graduate economic students in December, also chose Martin S. Feldstein '61 and Dale W. Jorgenson, both professors of Economics, as runners-up for the prize...
Going a step further, Harvard's Martin Feldstein suggests that the Government give what he euphemistically calls "youth employment scholarships to the unemployed and unskilled." Recipients would get 1,500 vouchers, which an employer could turn in to the Government in exchange for $1 each. The firm hiring and training the young person would collect one voucher per hour, thus substantially offsetting the burden of the rising minimum wage, which climbed from $2.30 to $2.65 an hour this year, and will increase to $3.35 in 1981. In the future, the vouchers might have to be worth well over $1. Says...
...employment proposals by Thurow and Feldstein have much the same problem as TIP; they would be hard to administer. There also would be serious difficulties in defining who was qualified to receive the job subsidy and in guarding against fraud. The plans have run into stiff opposition from union leaders, who fear that federal subsidy for young workers would tempt companies to lay off older, more experienced hands in favor of hiring the cheaper young...