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Dahlman, a former economics major, at once got a lesson in Government tax policies, which will leave him with only about $42,000. But at the same time, he has neatly solved the commonest problem of the dropout: unemployment...
...details admission standards, thus helping students eliminate wasted applications, and goes on to describe the academic environment at each college so that applicants will not learn too late whether a school is intellectually lazy, rigorous, or so tough that the dropout rate is alarmingly high. Cass and Birnbaum examined such matters as the number of full professors in a department to judge its real strength, rated the faculty by the quality of schools where they got advanced degrees, discovered solid and improving regional colleges that are anxious to acquire a national student body. Campus religious and social life was investigated...
Understandably, the loudest complaints come from the handful of concessionaires who have been forced to close, mostly with heavy losses. The show business sector has been hardest hit. Mike Todd Jr.'s America Be Seated closed shortly after the fair opened. Another notable dropout was Wonder World, a glossy musical-extravaganza with a cast of 250 that at times was bigger than its audiences. The Texas pavilion's lavish To Broadway with Love and Dick Button's Ice-Travaganza also folded. The Teatro Espanol's guitarists and flamenco dancers would be a hit in Manhattan...
...many officials, the best hope of breaking the self-renewing jobs-housing-education cycle lies in the schools. By the time they reach sixth grade, Harlem's children are nearly two full years behind their classmates downtown. The dropout rate is 55%, and the children often as not wind up on the streets, for the unemployment rate among Negro teen-agers is 40%. These youths are the despair of Harlem, for they are, in a sense, living proof of its failure. "Look at those damned kids," snapped a Negro man as packs of teenagers ran wild last week. "They...
...approved by the Senate, the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, under the proposed aegis of Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver, provides for a work-training program aimed at stemming the growing school-dropout population, a work-study program to help needy college students, a $340 million fund to aid localities in their own anti-poverty schemes, and money for rural-poverty loans and small-business loans. The only major Senate amendment was one introduced by Florida's Democratic Senator George Smathers. It was a sort of concession to states' rights forces, and gave Governors the power to veto...