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...could not possibly get enough people to fulfill the national security needs of the country. At this point. I think we're doing pretty well. The salary increases last November helped some: we have another salary increase in June, and one in October. I've made proposals to exempt the first $20,000 of income for men in the military services from federal income taxation--a lot of states do that now--and we are considering some educational benefits. All of these things I hope would be enough so that we wouldn't have to go to a draft...
...cuts exempt some of the programs for which spending is growing most rapidly. Here the critics-and they include a number of conservative Republicans -have a solid point. Reagan has indeed exempted many major "entitlement" programs, those to which people are automatically "entitled" if they fit certain criteria. These include Social Security pensions, numerous veterans' benefits and Medicare. Such programs are "indexed" to inflation: the faster the Consumer Price Index rises, the more benefits increase-even though the CPI is not a totally accurate measure of the cost of living. The CPI is, for instance, heavily weighted to reflect...
...adults who receive Aid to Families with Dependent Children (A.F.D.C.), the principal federal welfare payment, would be required to work for about 20 hours each week. Mothers with children under three years old and women with children ages three to six who cannot find day-care facilities would be exempt. So would the elderly and disabled. The Department of Health and Human Services estimates that only about 800,000 of the 10.8 million Americans on A.F.D.C. would be affected, and they could fill jobs as day-care helpers, park attendants and school crossing guards. Each state would be required...
...students." It is not clear what she had in mind, nor why it is relevant to the question of student participation on CRR. While it is true that the Faculty's CRR has jurisdiction only over complaints of students violations of the Resolution, officers of the University are not exempt from its provisions...
First, President Bok ventured to Beacon Hill, where he informed a taxation committee that the state's independent colleges and universities could not afford to lose their tax-exempt status. Tuitions would increase if the universities helped to bail out cities like Cambridge that are being crushed by Proposition 2 1/2, he said...