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This year federal and state governments are expected to give out $18 billion or more in benefits-triple the amount they disbursed last year. Though the states are bearing the major burden at present, the longer the high jobless rate persists, the more the insurance system will depend on financing by the federal budget. A total of $14 billion has been set aside in the budget to pay unemployment claims for fiscal 1976, and there is a strong chance that more money will be needed...
...sudden surge of joblessness has swamped unemployment offices. Out-of-work people have to stand for hours in long lines in dreary surroundings and be subjected to snappish treatment by overworked clerks. Worse, because of the heavy work load in the offices, the checks on which the jobless depend are either not ready when they appear at the office or are late in arriving in the mail. In Georgia, for instance, benefit applications early this month were running at 96,000 a week, v. 19,000 last year, and checks for some people were still arriving a month...
...others, constructing and rebuilding a closed world. There is always danger of betrayal in this life. Cooper has mastered enough subtleties of street intrigue to start feeling threatened by them. The deal for the warehouse block is not going well. He knows that his future and probably his life depend on what is termed "the successful completion of negotiations...
...million and $10 million by Feb. 1, 1976. The new federal campaign-finance law offers presidential candidates matching funds of up to $5 million for primary expenses but only if they first get contributions of at least $5,000 from each of 20 states. As a result, Jackson will depend heavily on a direct-mail appeal for funds, coordinated by Morris Dees, the liberal Montgomery, Ala., lawyer who raised $20 million by mail for McGovern in 1972. By year's end, Jackson expects to have sent his appeal to about 2 million people...
Whether the freestyle relay can snatch yet another victory in the closing laps of the meet will depend on how well the team can compensate for the absences of tri-captain Nancy Sato and junior Kyle Patterson, Coach Alice McCabe said yesterday...