Word: banfield
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...commission studies interrelated problems of local, state and federal government. The commission's recommendation on revenue sharing - introduced as legislation in 1969 by former Senator Charles E. Goodell (R-N.Y.) and Senator Edmand S. Muskie (D-Maine)-formed the basis for President Nixon's recent revenue sharing plan, Banfield said last night...
Edward C. Banfield, Shattuck Professor of Urbafi Government, was appointed by President Nixon Monday to the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations...
...three private citizens on the commission, Banfield assumes a post which ahs been vacant since president Nixon took office. The commission, which meets every three months, is composed of 26 officials from all branches of government...
Edward C. Banfield, Shattuck Professor of Urban Government, has proposed such measures as placing lower class "problem families" in closely supervised housing projects and institutionalizing the "highly incompetent poor...
Urban Affairs Expert Edward C. Banfield, author of The Unheavenly City, is reduced to musing on what he concedes are steps available only to an American dictator. Among other things, he would: repeal the minimum-wage laws; encourage "or perhaps even require" teen-agers who do not go to college either to take jobs that are low-paid and unattractive if they are the only ones available, or do military or volunteer service; encourage or even require institutionalization of the highly incompetent poor; and place lower-class "problem families" in closely supervised housing projects...