Word: programing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Food Stamps. With this program's 1982 budget of $12.9 billion snipped by $1.6 billion, some 1 million out of 22.5 million recipients will lose their stamps. Most states will make no attempt to cover the shortfall from local funds. Michigan officials, for example, expect to pare 16,000 from its food-stamp line of 396,000 households, while New York City may shave 68,000 from its roll of 1.1 million...
Comprehensive Employment and Training Act. Though this program must abolish its 300,000 public service jobs by the end of this month, the Labor Department estimates that some 50% of CETA-funded workers have already found other jobs, most with state and local governments. New York City, for example, will shift about 6,000 of its 9,000 employees to the city payroll, at a cost of $78 million...
School Lunches. By cutting the number of students eligible for free and reduced-price lunches, Congress carved about $1.5 billion from this program's $4.7 billion budget. School districts are thus faced with the choice of either hiking prices or slimming down portions; many have already doubled the charge for reduced-price meals to 400. To help cafeterias cope, the Department of Agriculture cooked up new nutritional guidelines that would provide schoolchildren, for example, with 6 oz. of milk instead of 8 oz., and, absurdly, would allow schools to consider ketchup and relish as vegetables...
...many farmers will be largely protected from financial losses in 1981, as they have been since the Dust Bowl disasters of the 1930s, by an enormously expensive array of federal subsidy and price-stabilization programs. Since wheat prices this year have already fallen 21? below the "target price" of $3.81 per bu., farmers can expect some $350 million in "deficiency payments"-literally, Government handouts-to make up the difference. In addition, more than 1 billion bu. of grain are expected to end up in farmer-owned reserves by the end of the year under a program that will lend farmers...
Helms was among those voting to trim the milk price supports. The next day, when peanut programs came up for a vote, he found milk-state Senators and others lining up against him. Agriculture Committee Member Richard Lugar, a Republican and former mayor of Indianapolis, came close to defeating both the committee's proposal to raise peanut price supports from $435 to $596 a ton and the system of allotments, which are Government franchises that limit the acreage on which peanuts can be planted. Helms was finally able to save the price support increase, but not the allotment program...