Word: equal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under Ford's plan, moreover, the taxes of many low-income families with children would actually be increased, because he wants to eliminate the "earned-income credit" enacted last year, available to families with dependent children at a rate equal to 10% of earned income up to $4,000, or a maximum credit of $400. Thus the Government would save $ 1.4 billion a year...
...feature of Dream is to remind us of how deeply Christianity is ingrained in the spirit of U.S. blacks. The songs of the Gospel are the most moving and powerful moments in the play. Among Southern whites, themselves steeped in the Christian tradition, the principle that every soul is equal in the sight of God produced an in exorable momentum toward progress in desegregation. While I Have a Dream is negligible as drama, it is very bracing as a lesson on how U.S. democracy works...
Americans strongly support passage of an equal rights amendment (ERA) for women and share most feminist ideals, but look on many feminist leaders with disfavor, a national poll conducted by two Harvard professors shows...
Throughout the South, news of Northern and Border-state unrest over busing has been greeted with understanding and something more than a little regional hubris. For 22 years, since the Supreme Court's pathfinding decision against "separate but equal" education, the South has borne the brunt of federal court orders, HEW guidelines and financial sanctions, and national "holier-than-thou" attention. Now, perhaps, the South can teach other regions a few civil rights lessons...
Louisiana Feminist Annabelle Walker, demurely dressed in a hoop skirt and twirling a parasol, demonstrated in favor of the Equal Rights Amendment last year. "A man shies away from an overly aggressive female," warns Gale Childers, who nonetheless has been aggressive enough to be a South Carolina bank branch manager at the age of 30. Alabama State Treasurer Melba Till Allen owes much of her success at the polls to her charming, ultrafeminine manner. Says she, "I don't believe that a woman could win in Alabama if she were not a lady." Yet Allen recently showed...