Word: doned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration's opportunity comes, in large measure, from a buoyant economy. Without the economic advances of the past eight years, it would not have the means to even begin the job that must be done domestically. One of its most important functions, therefore, is to maintain prosperity through fiscal and monetary policy. A sound and expanding economy is more important than any single federal program in combatting poverty and many other social ills. Beyond that, how should the Federal Government direct its huge (but not unlimited) resources toward achieving the nation's ideals? The question now demands a different answer...
...give them some form of guaranteed income, minimal as it might be. Incentives could be set up so that work would be rewarded and no one would live comfortably off the Government. The poor would remain, but the really poverty-stricken would disappear. The worst deprivation would be done away with. It would not be cheap?as much as $30 billion a year (as against the present total welfare bill to federal, state and city governments of $5.5 billion). The proponents of the scheme argue convincingly, however, that the cost of the negative income tax would gradually decline as growing...
...Housing Act of 1968, the Nixon Administration has the tools ? money excepted ? to make real improvement in the lives of millions. Model Cit ies is important because it tackles the slums from all angles, forcing city administrations to plan far more efficiently than they have ever done before. Unfortunately, the program has never been adequately funded. To make it work, Nixon should increase this year's allotment of $625 million to at least a billion, next year's to $1.5 billion. He should also adequately fund the Housing Act, which seeks, through subsidies, to build or rehabilitate...
...amount of Government programs could do every thing that needs to be done; and no President, in four years or a hundred, could end all the evils and right all the wrongs that exist in the U.S. today. But a strong President, in touch with the needs of the country, can do much to relieve the anguish that now grips the American spirit. His leadership can bring new understanding between the races; his resolve, or lack of it, can set the tone that guides the public actions of his countrymen...
...often, reality bears them out. What, then, can anyone do? Big Government or big business or big cities cannot be done away with. A nation of 200 million or 300 million-as the U.S. will be in another generation-cannot survive without a vast bureaucracy and without a multitude of laws. The day is long gone when a family could simply pack up to avoid being hemmed in by complexity. Even as technology opens up vast new worlds, extending man's powers and perceptions a thousand-or millionfold, many long for the simplicity of an earlier era. Yet there...