Word: betweens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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By the end of the second Day of Rage, Chicago was still there. The Weatherman publicity man had left town, and their nicely structured itinerary was shot to hell. Their withdrawal in search of tactics, oddly enough, became an effective tactic by itself. Perhaps the most important element of music...
Area #31 of the 73rd A.D. (an election district) consists largely of rent-controlled walkups, housing lower-middle-class blue collar workers. The median income is somewhere between $7,000 and $11,000, among the neighborhood's Jews and Irish, who account for most of the area's mixed populace...
Prof. Gerald Boyle of the University of New Mexico has estimated aggregate elasticities for state and local governments between 1956 and 1966. What he found would not surprise any urban mayor, particularly John Lindsay. With every one per cent increase in income, expenditures grew by 1.1 per cent while revenue...
Another even more important reason why Mayor Lindsay would not locally raise sufficient revenue to finance his programs goes back to the central theme of conflict between economically optimal and socially desirable policies.
The City is limited to taxes which are on the whole regressive: the poor pay proportionately more. According to unpublished research done at the National Bureau of Economic Research for fiscal year 1968-69, a family in New York City with a before-tax income under $2,000 paid 11.5...