Word: sectored
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Allison said some potential donors to the Kennedy School have reservations about the expansion and professionalization of the public sector. However, he said people are beginning to realize "the proposition that dumb government is going to be good government is just a mistake...
...involved--the role poverty and high unemployment play in the cycle of destruction, depopulation and ultimate demolition of urban areas. His welfare plan, now being insidiously nibbled at in Sen. Russel D. Long's (D.-La.) Finance Committee, is a basically constructive one. The $1.4 billion worth of public sector jobs and focus on low-income private employment, combined with last year's $6 billion public works stimulus package, are steps in the right direction--and about as much as can be expected from an Administration that never was full-employment oriented in the first place. The plan...
...that Carter will take no action on urban problems. White House discussion are underway on the prospect of a federal "Urbank" to help attract businesses into aging cities by promising low-interest loans. The President is clearly interested in ways of using the all-important private sector to help the cities. And it is still early. Carter has flooded Congress with other legislation; proposals on city problems had best not be sent up to Capitol Hill quite...
...Congress's push for civil rights for the aged. Legislators could attempt to use the new forced retirement law to eliminate pressure for the reform of the Social Security system, Later retirements would help curtail the drain on Social Security as well as ease the burden on private sector pension funds...
...damaging impact of militarism in the domestic sector is compounded by the fact that military spending industries are capital-intensive; military spending therefore creates fewer jobs than an equal amount of spending in the civilian sector. Additionally, armaments production is disproportionately high-skilled. Consequently, while a defense contract can in the short run boost a sagging local economy, in the long run it exacerbates both inflation and unemployment...