Word: fraud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...something of a hatchet job, but it explains something that few of the editorial writers bothered to touch upon, namely, that in the process of building downtown, Daley has ignored the neighborhoods. Royko, who is a Chicago Daily News columnist, attacks the old forms of corruption: the election fraud, the kickbacks, the small rackets. Indeed, he describes many cases of old-fashioned corruption in the matter-of-fact way which is his strength as a reporter...
...doctor believes that a liberal publisher (Conrad Bain) and his crusading editor (David Birney) will print the truth. They turn against him. He tries to rally the populace and is reviled as An Enemy of the People. At play's end, the town is morally polluted by the fraud it has elected to live by, and Dr. Stockmann huddles with his family as rocks come pelting through the windows of his home...
...Fraud and bureaucratic incompetence do not account for the jump in welfare costs. Why does 8.6 per cent of the population now receive support when in '65 it was 3.9 per cent...
Studies of welfare districts around the country consistently find that the rate of fraud is minute. In Massachusetts, a "quality control" sampling is regularly done and has yet to reveal a deceit level higher than one per cent, a figure too small to warrant further spending on detection...
...welfare, the trend within the welfare system is not toward greater restrictiveness. In the early days of welfare, late-night "raids" were commonplace. Although NWRO lost a Supreme Court battle against home inspections last January, the Cambridge welfare department (partly because of understaffing) does not investigate clients' claims for fraud, except on a spot-check basis...