Word: costs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever their disagreements, the Eastern operators face a common threat: that the strike will promote the highly productive, non-U.M.W. strip mines in the West at the expense of the high-cost, mostly U.M.W. mines of the East...
...approaches being considered in Congress is a Democratic proposal to stop using Social Security revenues to finance Medicare and federal disability insurance. Their budgets total $36 billion a year, about one-third of Social Security tax collections, and these benefits have been shooting up in cost. The Democrats, led by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson and Illinois Representative Abner Mikva, would pay for these programs from general federal revenues. Massachusetts Congressman James Burke, the chairman of a House subcommittee on Social Security, has proposed that one-third of the Social Security system's cost be paid from general revenues. This...
What to do? President Carter at budget time talked up a "deceleration" program of urging union and corporate leaders to hold wage-and-price boosts below the average for the past two years. This idea seems dead, killed by the coal strike and the cost of settling the walkout. The Administration is considering a series of other measures. Among them: holding pay raises of 1.4 million federal employees and 2 million military personnel to only 5%, rather than the 6% planned in Carter's fiscal 1979 budget; having Carter urge state and local governments to cut sales and property...
...discussing the cost-of-living clause demand, John Shaffer, shop steward for five House dining halls, said yesterday, "We won't accept percentages--we want across-the-board raises...
...third contract, while stripped of these oppressive features, does force the miners to pay up to $200 a year in medical costs. In an industry that has most working miners receiving minor injuries on a weekly basis and retired miners who make periodic visits to the hospital for black lung checks and other assorted ailments that come from a lifetime of hard work, it is obvious that the $200 will be paid immediately, perhaps in the first month of the year. In this matter, the federal government should intercede; for 30 years the cost of basic medical care...