Word: minimum
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Nixon's domestic package was hammered out not between Congress and the White House but within the Administration itself. Sharing federal revenues with the states and cities is a Republican idea of long standing. But guaranteeing a minimum annual income for welfare recipients decidedly is not ? even with the provision that they must accept any available work or vocational-training opportunity. There was a good deal of tugging and hauling over the welfare proposals, mainly pitting two relatively liberal Nixon men, HEW Secretary Robert Finch and Urbanologist Daniel Patrick Moynihan, against budget-conscious Economist Arthur Burns and other Cabinet...
...proposed substitute introduces a standard federal welfare minimum for the first time and would raise basic benefits in the 20 states now paying less than that figure: $1,600 a year for a family of four, with an extra $300 for each additional member. The basic allowance would be reduced as private income increases, but the family would be allowed to keep more of its earnings than at present. When the family of four reaches an income of $3,920, all federal assistance would end. Benefits paid by local or state authorities, however, could be added to the total...
...heroine's conquests, each posed for by one of the authors. ("Meet Melvin Corby" reads the blurb next to Aronson's picture, "faithful, frustrated, he canceled his men's magazines when Naked Came the Stranger.") Paperback rights have been sold to Dell for a $37,500 minimum (escalating to a possible $127,500 depending on hard-cover sales), and Stuart reports no fewer than 23 producers and directors interested in the film rights...
...gentle waters seem too distant, try Tuesday's card at Rockingham Park. In praise of The Scientist--the selections have won 30 per cent of the time and show a profit of $41.80 over the summer for the minimum two dollar bet. Drive North on route No. 93 to reach the Rock...
Hughes asked some of the witnesses what they thought of President Nixon's proposed bill to sentence a first-time offender to a minimum of two years in jail for possession of marijuana...