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...role of mineral resources in modern society constraints imposed by availability on political well-being of nations and of mankind as a who reserves, technology, price, rates of production a impact, population growth, and per capita incon major metals, several minor metals, fuels, and these resources and their implications for the future...
There are 11,021 citizens in Greene County, Ala., and 78% of them are black. They mainly work the soybean and cotton fields that surround the tiny county seat of Eutaw. 80 miles southwest of Birmingham. Greene County is poor: the median per capita income is $4,019. But its black residents are proud of a civil rights revolution they helped create. Says John Kennard, the county's first black tax assessor: "One of the most cherished things our people have here in the black belt is the right to vote." TIME Atlanta Bureau Chief Joseph N. Boyce visited...
...January the government made its biggest jump toward private enterprise. The rights to run restaurants and other small businesses that were losing money were auctioned to the public for as much as $100,000. This is high in a country whose 1979 per capita annual income was $3,042. The enterprises remain the property of the state, and their managers must pay a monthly fee to cover social insurance and equipment and building rental. They must also pay competitive wages to workers. But after taxes, the new entrepreneurs may keep whatever profit is left. The system is very similar...
...course, the premise of the "communist plot" argument is that if there were no socialist nations encouraging the rebels, there would be no revolution. But this assertion completely disregards the miserable conditions the people of El Salvador have lived under for so long. The per capita income of El Salvador does not even reach $700 a year, one of the worst averages in the western hemisphere. Ninety-five per cent of the people cannot read, and the government has made no attempt to reverse the condition of mass illiteracy. Malnutrition runs as high as 60 per cent. The infant mortality...
...dependent children, the most common welfare program in Georgia. The blind, the disabled and those over 65 also qualify. For each $1 that Grady spends on a Medicaid patient, the Federal Government contributes $2, under a sliding scale that permits Washington to help states with low per-capita income more than wealthier ones. Unfortunately, that ratio works in reverse when funds are reduced. Says Michael Yelton, director of public relations at Grady: "For every dollar we do not receive, we would have to cut $2 to $2.50 out of the budget...