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CHILD CARE. Taxpayers who must pay for day care for dependent children in order to hold a job are now allowed to deduct up to $4,800 a year for the cost of such care if they earn $18,000 or less. The tax bill permits the full allowance to be claimed on an income of up to $35,000, beginning with 1975 taxes. It also permits scaled-down allowances on an income of up to $44,600. The cost to the Government: $100 million...
...vans carrying some 150 workers daily, while 3M Co. has 65 vans that haul some 700 people. Regular workers moonlight as part-time chauffeurs; they get free rides collect whatever profits remain after expenses are met and can use the vans during off hours. Generally they earn about $8.50 for 7½ hours' driving per week. The riders pay roughly 2.5? per mile, which is so much cheaper than operating an auto that some estimate annual savings at $1,000 and more...
...been brewing for a long time. Since last fall, the Committee of Interns and Residents, with 3,000 members at the various hospitals, has been attempting to negotiate a new contract for its members. The problem of money was solved rather easily when the young doctors, who currently earn between $13,500 and $19,200 a year, agreed to drop their demands for an 11 % increase in salary. They settled with the League of Voluntary Hospitals for an 8% hike instead...
When specific jobs are not available, losers can be hired as consultants. Two defeated Tennessee Congressmen -LaMar Baker and Dan Kuykendall -have signed on as advisers to the Department of Transportation. Baker, 59, who was a member of the House Public Works Committee, will earn $36,000 a year lobbying for the department among his former colleagues. Kuykendall, 50, who helped write the legislation creating the U.S. Railway Association, will offer part-time advice on how to put the plan into operation...
Many of these names are unfamiliar to the average concertgoer or record listener. Who, for instance, has heard of Stephen Douglas Burton, 32, of Kensington, Md.? Enough people, it turns out, to earn him no less than five commissions worth a total of $30,000 in fees. Burton, a protégé of Germany's Hans Werner Henze and a skilled hand in a variety of contemporary stylings, has composed a symphony (Ariel), which the National Symphony will perform next season. He is also writing a trio of one-act operas, one of which will be based...