Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...breakeven point of $5,200 is reached. At $6,144, the family would start paying full taxes (see chart, following page). According to Tobin's arithmetic, no family would ever be better or as well off not working-as is often the case with today's welfare program-and work would always be encouraged with dollars...
...those who really need it would keep it for basic needs. The main beneficiaries would be the children. No fewer than 62 nations, including Canada and all the countries of Europe, already give family allowances. The family allowance, unlike the negative income tax, could be sold politically as a program for children rather than the poor, and thus would probably be more acceptable to Congress and the public. A "negative income tax," on the other hand, sounds like what it is, an economist's conceit, while a "guaranteed annual income" suggests featherbedding on a grand scale...
...like The Wonderful World of Color. In one episode, when a character conveniently named Potts makes a slighting reference about Negroes, Julia delivers her big punch line: "Is Potts calling the black a kettle?" Producer Kanter promises more of this hard-hitting social commentary in forthcoming shows. "In one program," says Kanter, "there's a Negro male who's a failure and blames it all on his being colored. We straighten him out. In another, Corey is called 'nigger,' and the conflict is whether he should beat up the other...
...Model Cities Program has occupied stage center for the last few months. The Model Cities area in Boston encompasses about 62,000 residents, mostly black, in the Roxbury, North Dorchester, and Jamaica Plain sections of Boston. White submitted an $18 million plan to the Council, including provisions for community control of schools within the area and replacement of police by neighborhood "security patrols...
...Council Committee on Urban Renewal, which Atkins chairs, had jurisdiction over the program, and Atkins objected strenuously to its controversial sections...