Word: programing
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...spending cutbacks. The University of Chicago's Center for the Study of Welfare Policy gives this example: a working mother in Missouri with two children who earns $390 a month from her job now also receives $122 a month from the federal Aid to Families with Dependent Children program, $91 in food stamps and $39 in earned-income tax credits, leaving her family's total income 10% below the poverty line. Under the Reagan program, her food stamps would be cut to $75 and after four months her AFDC grant would be wiped out entirely, reducing her income...
Thus Democratic opposition is focusing on Reagan's tax cuts, which even many of the conservatives fear will deepen inflationary deficits. Illinois Democrat Daniel Rostenkowski, chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, went so far last week as to proclaim Reagan's tax program dead. He counseled the G.O.P. to cooperate in devising a compromise measure to reduce taxes less broadly and deeply, for one year only. That drew a threat from Stockman, after a White House meeting, that Reagan would veto such a measure. The outlook today is much what it has been from...
...best argument for preserving the program emerged last week: the first comprehensive study on the toll of the Viet Nam War on the Americans who served, undertaken by the Center for Policy Research in New York City and published by the Veterans Administration. Researchers, who interviewed 1,380 Viet Nam vets, concluded that they have been paying a disproportionate social price for their experience. Fully 24% of veterans who saw heavy combat were later arrested for criminal offenses. Though 70% went back to school, few finished. The vets have difficulty getting and holding jobs and have higher than average rates...
...cuts by $25 million -and save the centers. The veterans' affairs committees in both houses appear inclined to restore funds for them. Meanwhile, Muller is proposing a $250 million package for Congress to help Viet Nam veterans even more. His goals: hiring additional personnel for the counseling program; assisting the vets in finding jobs; requiring the VA to determine if the vets will get help for problems related to the herbicide Agent Orange; and extending the time that they can use the G.I. Bill, now limited to ten years from discharge. Sums up Lynda Van Devanter, 33, a surgical...
...Latin America, abortion is legal only in Cuba, but law does not necessarily determine practice. Argentines routinely weekend in Uruguay to shop -and to have illegal but readily available abortions. In Brazil, the government is slowly introducing a national family planning program (in deference to the church, the words "birth control" are not used), while a morbid and lucrative illegal abortion business thrives...