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Despite its departures, the budget contains no fundamental shift in priorities. The division between human resources -education, manpower training, health, social insurance, veterans' benefits-and defense would remain roughly the same as in the current fiscal year, though the rise in HEW's share is greater than the Pentagon's. Half of the growth in HEW's allocation comes from a 6% Social Security rise, which is to be paid for by higher payroll levies...
...would replace the AFDC program; each family would get $1,600 from the Federal Government. That would be only the floor. Through continuing state contributions atop that sum, most recipients would get approximately what they get now. But the change in much of the South would be dramatic. HEW estimates that there are 845,000 AFDC families in the South and Puerto Rico that would benefit to varying degrees. In Alabama, for instance, the maximum payment for an AFDC family of four is now $972; under FAP, it would be at least the federally guaranteed $1,600, even if Alabama...
...distribute almost 37% of the nation's welfare money. Reagan is a conservative, budget-minded administrator confronted by a geometric rise in costs for a program that is in part a philosophical anathema to him. For months he fought to dispense smaller checks than those mandated under federal rules. HEW came within a day of announcing a cutoff of $684 million in aid to California, most of it destined for children and their unemployed mothers. Only last-minute negotiations averted the stop order. In New York, Governor Nelson Rockefeller, just re-elected to his fourth term, is preparing...
...richest counties in the nation, the suburban welfare rolls are growing at a rate faster than that of the city itself. Now Lindsay is attempting to bring down the whole haphazard welfare structure, the better to build it anew. He is preparing a legal attack contending that HEW mandates resulting in automatic increases in his welfare budget amount to an illegal, destructive tax by the Federal Government on the city. He says: "Poverty and welfare are national problems; their solution cannot be found at the local level...
Payoff Strategy. At HEW, Mardian earned a reputation as the conservative heavy in a cast of liberal attorneys intent on enforcing the spirit as well as the letter of federal civil rights laws. One former HEW lawyer says that Mardian "consistently tried to scuttle school desegregation guidelines." Defending his go-slow position, Mardian candidly explained, "Look, you might as well recognize that you're in politics." He told his colleagues: "There are two kinds of people in the world-winners and losers. I knew a loser once and he was a queer." ("That's a joke," he added...