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...Democrats are bringing their audience into sharper definition, and their prime target is the ever-growing group of relatively affluent and educated middle-class citizens. The party is well aware of its weakness here. In October, the Democratic National Committee conducted polls in California, Pennsylvania and New York and found Johnson running well ahead of all the major Republican prospects among voters earning less than $7,000 a year. Citizens in higher income brackets tended to favor the Republican candidates. But much of the middle class is considered to be uncommitted to either party, to swing from election to election...
...relief financed by federal, state and local funds. They require each state to determine the proportion of its children receiving such benefits as of this month and to limit the use of federal money in the future to this fraction. Because the poor bear more children than the affluent, the proportion of needy minors is estimated to be increasing from 4.7% now to 5% in 1970. Therefore states will either have to make eligibility rules more stringent, reduce the load by other means, or produce the funds themselves to support the extra indigents...
...usual effigy of a capitalist boss. Its target was the Communist Party's own fat cats. In Rumania, as in the rest of Eastern Europe these days, the party is working hard to eradicate one of the biggest and most abused privileges perpetuated by Communism's affluent new class: the chauffeur-driven...
...began. Though a tough new law cut the desertion rate in half in 1967, it is still disappointingly high: more than one in ten ARVN soldiers go permanently AWOL, accounting for 70% of the ARVN's personnel losses. Draft dodging remains a national sport; even if caught, an affluent youth can buy his way out for $750 or less...
...These affluent days, most Americans rarely think about what's going on in the local jail, or they assume that prison reform has worked some quiet miracle of rehabilitation. Experienced in mates know better. Understaffed and undersupervised, county jails often provide terror far more chilling than any thing to be found in a full-scale pen itentiary. Last week the everyday horrors of life in Chicago's Cook County Jail erupted into public view. A grand jury has been investigating, and the city's newspapers have started interviewing former inmates. The result is a stomach-turning catalogue...