Word: budgeteering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plan was originally estimated at $2.8 billion, but its critics now claim that the plan would increase welfare payments by $20 billion a year or more. Congress is considering other ways of tackling welfare, all of which face a major problem: they add a lot more money to the budget during a period of concern over inflation...
...communities?rich or poor ?with just about any kind of federal facility. There is no chance that the program will be reduced, however, since funds are distributed to 411 of the 435 congressional districts. The Administration asked for a cut of $51 million in the $780 million budget for impact aid. Instead, Congress will probably increase the funds...
...Director James Mclntyre and Charles Schultze, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. They argued for a smaller program, one that would not cost more than $15 billion to $27 billion. Whatever the President decides, Congress is distinctly cool to the idea of adding to the already inflationary budget deficit. Capitol Hill also worries about extending medical coverage when the Government has been unable to control Medicare and Medicaid...
...Carter have gone on record as opposing abortions, and Congress has limited funds for abortions for the poor. But Califano believes the Government has an obligation to make as much birth control information as possible available to teenagers, especially those who are poor. He boosted the 1979 budget for such programs by $142 million, to $338 million...
...trend is always up, and HEW expenditures, which now make up 36% of the federal budget, are expected to grow even faster in the future. Califano estimates that by the year 2010 real spending on benefits for people 65 and older will have tripled, to $350 billion a year. At the same time there will be fewer working Americans to provide the money on which the vast superstructure of assistance rests. Because of the declining birth rate, the ratio of working to retired people will shift from 6 to 1 today to 3 to 1 by 2030. Since not much...