Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most serious charge against the Nixon program is that, while it stresses the need for getting welfare recipients off the dole and onto payrolls, it has not yet acknowledged the necessity for programs to create more jobs. A corollary criticism is that the Administration refuses to accept the role of employer of last resort...
Under the provisions of the Nixon welfare plan, able-bodied parents, except mothers of preschool-age children, would be required to accept "suitable" work or job training, if offered. Yet neither this program nor the proposed manpower-training act provides any means to create more jobs. "Like the welfare proposal," argued A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, "the manpower message outlines a training mechanism but suggests no plan -and provides no funds-for turning a trainee into a job holder. It is the Government that must be the employer of last resort, and on that subject the President's proposal...
...work. You can make a case that we need a public-employment program right now." The primary problem is money. The cost of the Government's assuming the role of employer of last resort could be astronomical, far above what a Congress concerned with inflation would accept. Unemployment is now 3.6%, 2,592,000 people. If the rate were to rise 1%, 858,000 more workers would be jobless. To place even half of these unemployed in public service could cost the Government up to $3 billion. Ideology is an equal barrier. Presidential Adviser Arthur Burns shies away from...
Several critics also balk at the work requirement in the Nixon welfare program. They question the social value of forcing mothers of school-age children to accept employment or job training rather than staying at home with their youngsters. The requirement that family-assistance recipients accept "suitable" employment also worries some. They fear that the lack of safeguards in Nixon's plan against abuses of this requirement could lead to unemployed people being trained for skilled work and then being forced to accept menial jobs to qualify for federal...
...electorate allows it. Entrepreneurs who half-knowingly accept dirty money with the rationale that business is business are as corrupt as grafting politicians...