Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than productivity goes up - is likely to be pretty much ignored in 1960; nobody wants to antagonize labor leaders already annoyed about last year's Landrum-Griffin labor-reform bill. To soothe labor's feelings, Democrats in Congress are planning to pass a bill upping the U.S. minimum wage from $1 to $1.25, or at least $1.10. Democrat Humphrey openly calls the Landrum-Griffin Act punitive. Republican Nix on openly calls it very constructive. RELIGION...
...state needs a $333 million "minimum" capital-improvement program (which calls for $80 million in state funds, the balance in matching federal funds). But if such a program is attempted, the 1966 deficit will go to $72 million...
...enough new money to hold the gains. But is this enough? Far from it, says Ralph Lazarus, head of C.E.D.'s educational subcommittee and president of Federated Department Stores Inc. "We cannot pay for better schools just by continuing our present effort. We should do more than this minimum-and we can afford...
...C.E.D. would not have the U.S. simply hand over the money, since "this would penalize states now making the greatest effort to support schools and reward states making the least effort." Instead, C.E.D. suggests giving aid to states where personal income falls below a certain national "foundation" (minimum): 80% of a figure arrived at by dividing all U.S. personal income among schoolchildren only ($9,157 in 1957-58). Each state would receive a percentage of its deficit, equivalent to the national ratio of school spending to personal income. Sample: in 1957-58 the ratio was 2.83%, and Mississippi...
...just as active in other fields: Japanese art, political debates, classical concerts and live jazz. It has the only full local news-analysis program of any San Francisco TV station; last summer it trained a sharp-eyed camera on Visitor Nikita Khrushchev. For 5,500 subscribers, the price ($10 minimum) is cheap. On KQED, the viewer can learn anything from how to bid in bridge to foreign cultural habits. And in the works are new riches: a series on photography by Old Pro Ansel Adams, another on the roots of Communism in cooperation with the Hoover Institute on War, Revolution...