Word: brennan
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...notion of at least a modest increase in public-service jobs got a nod last week from Labor Secretary Peter Brennan. In a television interview, he favored a $1 billion program to create 200,000 jobs if the unemployment rate reaches 6% (it was 5.4% in August). Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns is an ardent backer of an even bigger plan...
...over from existing appropriations could be spent to fund public-service jobs. But unless the Ford Administration is to abandon its drive to balance the budget it seems obvious that an ambitious program eventually would require either higher taxes or extra-deep cuts in other federal spending. Burns and Brennan have not said how they would arrange the financing, but Senator Percy has tackled the problem. He would close tax "loopholes" that favor the oil industry in order to raise the $6 billion...
Revenue Sharing. Yet Alan Fechter, an economist with the Washington-based Urban Institute, concludes that a lump-sum $1 billion outlay would not create the 200,000 new jobs that Labor Secretary Brennan foresees, but only about 50,000. Local officials, he argues, tend merely to substitute the federal funds for state and local money that would have been spent anyway...
...1950s, Moses concurrently held twelve state and city jobs. His spending budget was $213 million a year. Any politician who blocked him was likely to be deluged with calls from city power brokers like Jack Straus of Macy's, Banker David Rockefeller, Building Trades Union Chief Peter J. Brennan...
...Angeles Lawyer Dean Butler, who is handling Nixon's personal legal affairs, journeyed to San Clemente for a round of talks with Nixon Aides Ronald L. Ziegler, Stephen B. Bull and Colonel Jack Brennan. Butler glimpsed the former President walking the grounds, but the two did not speak. He is not involved with Nixon's Watergate-related legal problems...