Word: capita
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...have been compiled. At the same time, U.S. housing output has fallen seriously behind the nation's needs. Last year the U.S. built just under eight houses and apartments for every 1,000 people compared with 16 per 1,000 during 1950, the peak year. On a per capita basis, U.S. housing output has fallen from world leadership to a level below Western Europe, Japan and Russia...
...straight year. The decrease, from 572.6 billion cigarettes in 1967 to 571.7 billion last year, seems minuscule. But it is disturbing to an industry that had been able to count on steady growth be fore the 1964 Surgeon General's report linked smoking to cancer. In 1968, per capita consumption of cigarettes among American adults dropped from 210 packs to 205. Overall industry profits remain high, but only because the tobacco men have been able to step up exports and sales of non-tobacco items...
Ogilvie has also been brash in his approach to taxpayers. Illinois ranks third among states in per capita personal income, but 49th in the percentage of personal income going to state and local taxation. Ogilvie believes that the "bedrock needs of this state" demand radical change. Even the Republican legislative leaders were stunned by the size of his proposal: a budget increase of 45% and the biggest tax jump in Illinois history, including its first income tax. The money would be used to hike welfare spending by more than 20%, nearly double aid to elementary and secondary public education...
...code reform is accomplished, Congress will be free to act on some new and imaginative tax ideas, such as Nixon's plan to offer special incentives for the rebuilding of ghettos and Economist Walter Heller's program for federal-state revenue sharing on a no-strings, per capita basis...
...firms have moved their offices from Japan to Hong Kong, and foreign investors have been attracted by the fact that the colony has no capital gains tax and a maximum tax on gross income of only 15%. Wages remain low, averaging $13.50 for a 50-hour week, but per capita annual income has risen in three years from...