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...short-term plan to speed up public works projects and provide aid to those hardest hit by the recession. There will, no doubt, still be bitter battles ahead over more ambitious proposals for long-term jobs programs and the budget. But the compromise was an important symbolic sign of bipartisan cooperation...
...fact reduce funds for some programs for the poor, such as food stamps and child nutrition, by about 8%, while boosting the defense budget by 14%. But lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are loath to make further cuts in programs for the poor. Moreover, there is considerable bipartisan support for a public works jobs program to stimulate employment. Predicted Republican Congressman Silvio Conte of Massachusetts: "There will be a hell of a shift from defense to social programs, no doubt about...
Republicans began putting together proposals of their own. In the bipartisan burst, few bothered to point out that the impact of jobs programs usually comes only after recovery is under way. House Minority Leader Robert Michel of Illinois appointed a ten-member task force to write a jobs bill. Senators Howard Baker of Tennessee and Paul Laxalt of Nevada met with Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese to enlist his support. Later in the week the White House announced that Reagan was considering a limited and as yet unformulated plan to speed up Government construction projects in order to create more jobs...
...selling the notion of an economy on the rebound, Reagan must be careful not to believe it too blindly himself. The economy is far from cured: it requires a lot more strong medicine. As chief surgeon, Reagan will have to be pragmatic, bipartisan and ready for any contingency. In short, he will have to make good on the reassuring rhetoric of his State of the Union message. -By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett and Evan Thomas/Washington...
...total $660 billion during fiscal 1984, up more than 10% from the current financial year and $10 billion more than would be collected under present tax rates. The extra $10 billion would be provided primarily by increases in Social Security payroll taxes that have been recommended by a bipartisan reform commission and a new plan to make workers pay income taxes on a portion of the medical insurance premiums that employers pay for them...