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College Student Loans. Aid to college students-notably the Guaranteed Student Loan Program-will be cut by $803 million next year, or by about 16%. The cuts will be almost twice that in the following year. The loans, subsidized at 9%, are now available regardless of need; under Reagan's plan, families must prove they genuinely need loans to meet college costs. In addition, interest payments may no longer be deferred. Funding for Pell grants, which are direct scholarships to needy students, will also be reduced.Says John Phillips, president of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities...
Comprehensive Employment and Training Act. Reagan plans to abolish the act's public service employment programs, which would cost more than $3.7 billion next year. They pay the salaries of 1,600 employees in city government and nonprofit agencies in San Francisco alone. Arkansas may lose as many as 2,500 workers, while New York City will dismiss 11,500. "Most of ours will end up going back on welfare," complains Ronald Gault, New York's employment commissioner. Yet of all Reagan's budget cuts, the controversial CETA program may be among the least missed. Says Cleveland...
Medicaid. Health-care costs in the U.S. have risen far more sharply than even the high rate of inflation. One result is that Medicaid, a program that cost the Federal Government about $2.5 billion in 1968, was expected to require $18.2 billion in 1982. Reagan hopes to cut $1 billion out of that amount and save up to $5 billion annually by 1986. He would do so mainly by setting a limit on the federal contribution to the program, which is funded jointly with the states, and letting Washington's support grow only to keep up with inflation. Thus...
Social Security Disability Insurance.Costs of this program have soared from $2.3 billion in 1970 to a projected $19 billion in 1982, and it is ripe for curtailment. Nearly 3 million Americans now draw benefits because they are officially classified as disabled and therefore unable to work. Yet many continue to draw benefits after they have recovered from their ailments. The General Accounting Office estimated in January that up to 584,000 people who are "not currently disabled" still get some $2 billion a year in insurance payments. Reagan has proposed to remove ineligibles from the rolls...
...federal budget cuts proposed by the President look crisp and bloodless when summarized in tidy charts and statistical tables, but it is a very long way from the Latinate language of program descriptions to the bumpy realities of people and places those Washington moneys touch. Though inevitably some were born of boondoggling and hornswoggling in the give and take of American politics, most federal programs were conceived with the best of intentions, created to advance goals on which much of America agreed. To feed the hungry. To heal the sick. To train the jobless. To enable the nation...