Word: aide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because of Proposition 2 1/2, a referendum passed in 1980, the property taxes cities and towns can levy have been restricted. As a result, local funds for education have been smaller, and reliance upon aid from Beacon Hill has increased drastically...
Dukakis last month proposed an increase of $120 million in aid to local cities and towns, but tied it to approval of his controversial tax package. House Speaker George Keverian (D-Everett) said yesterday the aid package will most likely not pass the legislature...
Barrett said that local aid funds are of greater concern to state primary and secondary schools than general Department of Education outlays. "The DOE funds are really secondary. If local aid is cut, we're looking at enormous impact on education...
...measures, which do not indicate any real programs for combatting the large domestic problems this country faces. Bush does call for nearly $5.5 billion to combat the nation's drug crisis--almost $1 billion more than was spent this year--and he has agreed to fully fund programs for aid to the homeless as legislated by Congress. In an effort to improve America's economic "competitiveness," the plan would also target more research money to the National Science Foundation and make permanent the investment tax credit...
...been weakened by the adoption of a 3% consumption tax that he championed and a stock scandal that forced the resignation of three Cabinet members, he has been successful in expanding Japan's role as a global philanthropist. Among the signs: a planned 7.8% increase in Japan's foreign-aid budget. The growth will lift Japanese overseas assistance to $9.6 billion for fiscal 1989, and should propel Japan past the U.S. as the world's top donor...