Word: aids
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...same, he is well aware that with Congress considering a $6 billion budget cut, such ambitious demands are not likely to be met. He and his lieutenants would probably be happy to settle for far more limited steps-notably, a reversal by Congress of the 1967 freeze on the Aid for Dependent Children program, enactment of a provision to create 450,000 jobs for the unemployed in the coming year, and funding of President Johnson's three-year program to employ 500,000 of the jobless in private industry. "If there is no response," Abernathy said last week...
...CLOUD of financial restraint hangs over the entire report. Present Federal aid to education is now geared to developing new "centers of excellence" around the country, and the report seems to assume that the current financial squeeze on established private college is going to get worse. With its final paragraph, the report delivers the coup de grace to the notion that Harvard can be universally excellent: "The Committee recommends that the Faculty concentrate upon a limited number of areas in which it can provide top-quality leadership rather than seek to achieve a full spectrum of appointments in every department...
...that the organizers of the Poor People's March on Washington have set up "an agency to process marchers' welfare checks" as they "prod Congress into granting greater aid to the 29,900,000 American poor." At least they will have something to live on while they protest against the Government's lack of concern for them...
Another adverse effect of the War on Poverty has been to set deprived minorities in competition with one another for federal aid. Militancy becomes a weapon for winning attention; and the minorities grow increasingly jealous and imitative of one another's extremism. "We've tossed a few crumbs in the middle of millions of the nation's people and said, 'Folks, you fight for it and may the best man win,' " says one high-ranking poverty warrior. "That's a disgrace." Nonetheless, for all its faults, the War on Poverty has at least dramatized the plight of the poor...
...other one-third of poor mothers are widowed, abandoned, divorced or unmarried?and the last have proved to be the most fecund of all. Fully 40% of all offspring on the national rolls of the Aid for Dependent Children program are illegitimate. AFDC spent $2.3 billion last year, up from a quarter of a billion dollars 20 years ago. One angry black Atlantan estimates that 616 poor Negro households in her housing project contain only 30 headed by a husband. The rest are women-dominated. Mrs. Marie Childress of Cleveland, for example, receives only $102 a month to feed...