Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...totaling $25.6 billion to aid the nation's poor-an increase of $3.6 billion-and specifically earmarked $2 billion for Sargent Shriver's Office of Economic Opportunity, combat headquarters for the war on poverty. Predictably, though the figure represents a 25% increase over OEO's current budget, it was nowhere near enough to satisfy everybody. Speaking for the U.S. Conference of Mayors Detroit's Jerome Cavanagh promptly complained that at least $3 billion was needed to do the job properly...
...imbalance. On any single day it has authority over 1,300,000 offenders, but only one-third of them are behind bars. The rest are on probation or parole. It is in the prisons and jails, however, where four-fifths of the system's billion-dollar-a-year budget is spent, where nine-tenths of the correctional employees work...
...world-famed demographer who became the new Minister of State for Health. He replaces Sushila Nayar, a cheerful but backward-looking spinster who had never shown any enthusiasm for birth control programs and, in fact, sometimes did not even bother to spend her department's allocated budget. Chandrasekhar, who plans to emphasize the use of the loop contraceptive for women, will enforce an all-out program to reduce India's birth rate. -As for food, the new minister was certain to bring a sense of urgency to the job. He is Jagjivan Ram, 58, the leader of India...
...largest and least efficient public-school system. To service a student population of more than 1,000,000, and pay a teacher staff of 54,600, New York next year proposes to spend $1.1 billion-more than is spent by 26 states to operate their entire governments. The budget breaks down to an expenditure of about $1,000 a year per student, roughly $400 above the national average; teacher salaries are among the highest of large U.S. cities. Yet the results are academically deplorable: recent surveys showed that New York students ranked well below national norms in such basic skills...
...present three-man Board of Commissioners with a single Commissioner and a nine-member Council. According to the President, the Commissioner would take over the executive functions of the Board--"responsibility and authority to organize and manage the D.C. government, to administer its programs and to prepare its budget of revenues and expenses." The Council would take up the quasilegislative functions of the present Board--reviewing the budget, issuing licensing rules and police regulations, and establishing rates for property taxation...