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...some of our suggestions. And I listen to theirs with the greatest attention, with the respect that a great country deserves. The industrialized countries need the economic recovery of the Third World, need these billions of human beings, potential buyers of our products. This is not only a generous attitude, it is a self-serving...
When Social Security was founded in 1935, it was supposed to be a supplement, rather than a substitute, for private pension plans and retirement savings. But over the years, generous Government benefits made it possible for most retirees to look largely to Washington for income in their old age. Now America's aging work force will almost certainly reduce the role of Social Security and make company pension programs more important than ever. -By Alexander L Taylor...
This is a Truman Capote unfamiliar to the readers of Music for Chameleons. Guileless, yet frivolous, self-absorbed, yet generous, Capote through his 20's and early 30's flits heedlessly from lover to lover, from New York to the South, from Ischia to the Continent, returning infrequently to the States, but always writing--a peripatetic dynamo...
...Washington joined the states in expanding what was then known as the mothers' aid movement. Originally, the program was intended primarily to assist widows with children. Today 80% of the payments go to single parents whose mates have deserted, and other eligibility standards have been steadily made more generous. In 1936, 534,000 people collected a total of $21.3 million in welfare payments from Washington. Today the Federal Government pays $7 billion to 11 million recipients. A tightening of rules is calculated to remove 400,000 families from the AFDC rolls in fiscal 1982 and reduce benefits slightly...
Souers and his family are now settled in a five-bedroom colonial house that cost $153,000 and has a 13.5% mortgage. Says he: "If Marriott had not offered the generous relocation benefits, I would not have moved. It would have meant either decreasing my quality of housing or decreasing my life-style...