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Unemployment is no longer the national trauma it once was-and, in large measure, Jerry Ford can thank the New Deal for that improvement. The Social Security Act of 1935 and subsequent social legislation so greatly extended the jobless benefits that most out-of-work Americans now collect tax-free income for up to 65 weeks, averaging from $48.15 weekly in Mississippi to $95.56 in the District of Columbia. In fiscal 1976 the average payment was $71.85 weekly, and more than 10 million people collected jobless checks at one time or another. Add food stamps, welfare, union unemployment benefits (which...
Some people-nobody has a good estimate of how many-are not actively looking for jobs but list themselves as unemployed in order to collect the benefits that are available. In scattered cases, the benefits amount to more than people can earn after deducting taxes and expenses and thus deter them from looking hard for work. Says an unemployed Miami secretary: "My take-home pay was $135 a week. I spent $35 for child care, about $10 getting back and forth to the office and maybe $10 for clothes to wear at work. I'm better off staying...
...Please tell Jeffrey to please accept my collect calls...
...some reason, the Miscellany box tends to collect science announcements, which as a rule don't sound too exciting. Alan Lightman of the Center for Astrophysics is speaking on "Quasars and Collapsing Clusters" at the Cahners Theater of the Museum of Science at 8 p.m. on October 20--go right ahead if you want, but don't blame me. If I were you, I'd wait until November 10, when William Press, also of the Astrophysics Center, is speaking on "Gravity Waves and Black Holes...
...papers prepared by participants in College and Institute programs will be kept in the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, hidden on the first floor of the old Radcliffe College Library building that now also houses the Institute. When a gift of the Women's Rights Collection provided the nucleus for a Women's Archives in 1943, the aim of its founders was to collect source materials for easier writing of what was then a neglected history...