Word: aid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bill for emergency aid to the homeless was passed by Congress last month. That was not tough-minded either, since the $50 million to be spread around the entire country can hardly solve the problem. But the symbolism was important. In a nation that prides itself on its economic comeback from recession, the spectacle of people huddling around trash-can fires is ethically embarrassing. One makes five or ten serious moral choices (give money, pass them by, what?) on the way to work, and as many coming home, and the conscience at last is frayed. Says Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis...
Even before the Iran-contra affair, Americans had a suspicion that Reaganism had gone too far in trying to rescind the more generous work of Government: cutting Aid to Families with Dependent Children, for example, and federal funds for housing while running up the military budget from $134 billion in 1980 to $266 billion in 1986. (Although as a percentage of the gross national product, non-defense spending has declined very slightly and is still more than double defense spending.) The dream of salvation -- "Get the Government off the backs of the American people and release the energies of free...
...TIME by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, people were asked whether Government spending should be increased, decreased or kept the same for various public needs. More than 70% said that funds should be increased for health care to the poor and the elderly, for cleaning up the environment and for aid to the homeless. Given a choice of spending more for the military or more for social programs, respondents preferred the social programs, 69% to . 23%. More than three-fourths of those surveyed said Government "should play a more active role" in such areas as health care, poverty, housing and education. Most...
...current push for welfare reform, led nationally by New York Senator Daniel Moynihan and Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, is the best example of this approach. It is based on two truths: that unconditional aid leads to long-standing dependency and that the impoverished children of this nation cannot merely be abandoned. The new approach -- being tried with some success in states such as Massachusetts, California, New Jersey and New York -- is to require recipients to enter training and job-placement programs. In some of the proposals, the Federal Government would become the employer of last resort...
...final clubs are vestiges of a Harvard which should have passed more than a generation ago. The University seems to be truly committed to making merit rather than money the salient factor in determining admission. Two-thirds of today's undergraduates, for instance, receive some form of financial aid...