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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...
...quadrennial farm programs, representing Government intervention in the marketplace in the extreme, are the antithesis of Reaganomics. They also tend to produce budget-busting expenditures. So President Reagan proposed a farm bill that would abolish target prices completely, lower dairy price supports and eliminate acreage allotments for peanuts. Explained Block: "Farmers should look to the free market for their income, not to the Government." Even so, the bill was expected to cost $10 billion over five years...
There is his "human life bill," an anti-abortion measure that would statutorily establish the beginning of human life at conception, and so could make abortion prosecuted as murder. In January, hearings may begin on a Helms proposal to abolish Supreme Court jurisdiction over school prayer cases. Another Helms measure, the one with the best chance of passage...
Education. Reagan has promised to abolish this year-old Cabinet department, and last week its Secretary, Terrel Bell, suggested that the deed be done by transferring the programs to a new Government foundation, similar to the National Science Foundation. Bell prefers this approach over the option of returning the Education Department to the Department of Health and Human Services in the form...
...would almost certainly be restored during floor debate. Examples: ending college loans for families making more than $25,000 a year and cutting off "impact aid" to school districts that serve federal facilities, primarily military bases. Other committees met their "goals" by proposing to close 10,000 post offices, abolish the Export-Import Bank and eliminate a program that provides meals for the elderly. "That's the kind of junk we are facing," said one presidential aide...