Word: benefitted
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Some human beings are gifted with perfect pitch, others with total recall. Ben Skora can hand-build just about anything, without benefit of blueprint. A high school dropout, one-time recording company owner, Skora has for the past 30 years helped pay the rent by treating drug, drinking and other behavioral problem cases with hypnosis. But he admits to a life-long addiction of his own: gadgets. One historic day six years ago, he repaired to his garage with an armload of automobile power-window assemblies and second-hand refrigerator motors worth about $2,000 at the junkyard. Three years...
...sure how [the administration's] Middle Income Assistance Act will look in its final form, but at this point it seems to benefit more people and distinguish real need better than the tax credit plan," Lyman said...
With consumer prices climbing, politicians belatedly have begun thumping the tub to squeeze out wasteful and excessive Government spending. Yet when it comes to cutting specific programs that benefit their own constituents, most lawmakers run for cover. One egregious case: Impact Aid, an ever expanding relic of the 1940s. Almost everyone in Washington agrees that it should be sharply reduced, but Congress is moving to expand it, adding well over $200 million in needless expenditures to next year's projected budget deficit of $48.5 billion. Having examined the tangled story of Impact Aid, TIME Washington Economic Correspondent George Taber filed...
Once federal money starts flowing, it almost never stops. Though Impact Aid was designed primarily to cover only uniformed service personnel, Congressmen from districts without military installations also wanted their constituencies to benefit, and step by step they found ways for them to do so. Over the years they expanded the program to include Indians and all Federal Government workers, even those who did not reside on federal land and thus paid local property taxes, and children living in federally financed public housing projects. The program, which originally covered 512,000 children, now blankets 2.4 million. So long...
...space program to Social Security offices, Impact Aid today goes to 432 of the nation's 435 congressional districts. It has inflated from a $27 million funding plan that aided 1,172 school districts in 1951 to an enormous federal giveaway that this year will cost $770 million and benefit 4,100 of the nation's 16,000 school districts. The Senate will vote shortly on next year's Impact Aid program, and proposed changes could well send the cost leaping to nearly $1 billion. Some members, for example, want to expand the coverage to include children of postal workers...