Word: programing
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...Northeast and Midwest will probably be forced to cut social services most severely, since these states tend to spend more on the needy than Sunbelt states and are not so prosperous. In New York's Monroe County, for example, officials have already cut off funds for a treatment program for child abusers, and in Massachusetts, Human Services Secretary William T. Hogan has announced he will reintroduce a program of mandatory, nonpaying public service jobs for welfare recipients. In Kentucky, some 26,000 residents who now receive $200 a month in aid to families with dependent children will lose that...
Many states will cut back on Medicaid, since that is the program with the highest federal contribution, 16%. The Reagan budget reduces Medicaid contributions to the states by 3% in fiscal 1982. In Illinois, officials have trimmed reimbursements to hospitals for treating Medicaid patients by $130 million. Private hospitals in Illinois are trying to duck the added costs of caring for Medicaid patients by transferring them to public hospitals. At Cook County Hospital in Chicago, for example, transfers have jumped from 137 patients in July 1980 to 363 this past July. "We are caught in a vise," complains Director Elliott...
...speed the process of decay in guerrilla ranks, the Thai government offers a generous amnesty program. So far this year more than 1,000 guerrillas in the northeast have defected. Those who defect are not asked to apologize or recant. They are generally given work on government construction projects or assisted with funds gathered by local merchants. Says Lieut. General Lak Salikupt, regional commander of the Second Army: "Persuasion is always more efficient than gunfire...
...University of California system tried selling tax-exempt bonds to finance first trust deed loans, but Congress effectively canceled this method in 1980, though not before the program had helped some 190 faculty members. U.C.L.A. also started its own program of second mortgages but ran into trouble when it had to choose between tenured professors and promising newcomers. Besides, adds Crooks, even with low-cost loans "a professor cannot even afford these loans unless he has additional family income." At Stanford, the university is constructing 144 condominiums and town houses...
...into the corps one should be disadvantaged and in deep educational trouble. But felons and drug addicts need not apply. If the program sometimes succeeds with hard cases where public schools have failed, it is partly because students who apply see the program as a last chance. While some drop out right away, those who stay usually commit themselves to a six-month residential program that is a cross between boot camp and boarding school. Says one South Bronx administrator: "If students went home at 5 p.m. to ghetto conditions, you would defuse 70% of what they learn." Job Corps...