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...Nixon plan has little chance in Congress. Mills is stonewall set against the scheme. He refuses to have the Federal Government pass out funds to the states and cities with no strings attached. He favors instead having the Federal Government relieve state and local governments of one of their fastest-growing expenses: the cost of welfare, which now runs to $14.2 billion a year. For their part, the Governors have no objection to Nixon's plan, which would give their states and cities $5 billion of new money in its first year. But they are partisan politicians and political...
...computer has altered the character of everyday life, it is changing the shape of the computer business itself. For the past three years, one-tenth of new U.S. investment in plant and equipment has gone into computers, enough to make electronic data processing the nation's fastest-growing major industry. Last year computer-industry revenues rose 17%, to some $12.5 billion. Still, the computer industry may in some ways be a victim of its own success. Computer technology has raced ahead of the ability of many customers to make good use of it. Not long ago, the Research Institute...
...most rapid gains are anticipated in state and local government jobs (up 52%), service industries (up 40%), and construction (up 35%). Job openings should increase at the fastest rate in the Pacific and Mountain states, while growth will be comparatively slow in New England and the mid-Atlantic states...
Even now there is no universally accepted definition of the programs that actually constitute the welfare system. But there are six basic elements that HEW considers the core of welfare: Medicaid; Old Age Assistance (OAA); Aid to the Blind (AB); Aid to the Permanently and Totally Disabled (APTD); the fastest growing, Aid for Dependent Children (AFDC) and General Assistance, a locally used catchall category...
...accidents over the past decade in Southeast Asia. In the last three months of 1970, aircraft accidents were the chief cause of noncombat deaths (91), ahead of mishaps with "friendly" mines and other explosive devices (39), auto accidents (30), suicides (18) and accidental gunshot wounds (17). But the fastest-rising cause of noncombat deaths is drug abuse. In 1969, the Army did not even bother to tabulate drug deaths, they were so rare. But from October to December last year, 29 soldiers died as a direct result of overdoses...