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Word: agee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Social Security system is in financial trouble [Nov. 7] because the Congress has made it a general welfare fund, a process that has gone largely unnoticed by the average worker. Liberal legislators have discovered how easy it is to pass general welfare legislation under the Social Security (read old-age pension) banner. Giving away old-age pensions to college kids et al. continues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 28, 1977 | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

...farce. After turning 22, I had an accident that left me disabled. Although I applied for every form of Social Security benefit, I was rejected because I had not worked the past five out of twelve years. Really now, how could I when I only reached the legal working age four years ago? After paying into the Social Security program for four years, I learn only that rules are rules, and the poor get poorer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 28, 1977 | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

Before the younger people start screaming about higher Social Security taxes, let me remind them that there is only one other alternative for most people, and that is to support their own parents in their old age. Then they will have to pass this burden on to their own children. The Social Security generation is the only one in civilization's history that has not had to shoulder this burden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 28, 1977 | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

...livestock, naked." On both the North and South sides of Chicago, separate rings of girl prostitutes, many of them only twelve years old, are at work. Some of the pre-teens earn $200 nightly. In Los Angeles, police estimate that up to 3,000 girls and boys under the age of 14 are engaged in prostitution. In Houston's Montrose district, teen-agers sell their sexual services in front of once grand but now aging homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Youth for Sale on the Streets | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

...several Southern California cities after his parents, both teachers, were divorced. At 14, he began working the graveyard shift at a pizza house in National City, a San Diego suburb. "It was a tiny community," he likes to recall. "The main drag was a transvestite, and the average age was deceased." Nightwork hampered his high school studies, but not his education. "I encountered a whole different element-people a lot older than me, pool hustlers and Mafioso types. I grew up real fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tom Waits: Barroom Balladeer | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

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