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Unlike the Federal Government, all states except Vermont are required by their constitutions to balance their budgets. Nowhere has this been more difficult during the current recession than in the hard-hit industrial heartland. With the nation's highest unemployment rate (15.9%), Michigan barely made it through the past two years by laying off 8,000 state workers, wringing $20 million in pay concessions from its remaining 60,000 employees, slashing spending in every area, and raising income and cigarette taxes. Michigan is only one month into an austere fiscal 1983 budget of $4.6 billion, and already it looks...
...Congressman Robert Michel, 59. In the 18th Congressional District race in central Illinois, originally expected to be a laugher for Michel, who is the House minority leader, Democratic Newcomer G. Douglas Stephens, 31, a lawyer, is coming on strong. He has been effective at mining the discontent of the hard-hit farm and factory constituency. He has linked Michel, the President's point man in Congress, to Reaganomics and blamed him for not changing Reagan's mind on the Soviet pipeline sanctions, which are unpopular in an area where some pipeline equipment would have been made. But this...
Republicans are trying various strategies to blunt the economic issue. "Quite frankly, we are just avoiding it altogether," says Bob Heller, a strategist for the re-election campaign of Texas Congressman Jack Fields. Instead, Fields' ads picture him as a hard-working legislator who stays in close touch with his constituents. In hard-hit New England, some Republicans are trying to put distance between themselves and Reagan's policies. Rhode Island Congresswoman Claudine Schneider stresses the independence she showed in voting against many of the President's measures during her first term...
...between much laughter and hard-hit spikes, the Crimson took advantage of BU's feebly organized set ups and brought its record...
...into the number of offers some graduates receive, from the usual five or six to perhaps two or three, and skittishness over the economy caused some June grads to snap up jobs hastily in January or February. But even General Motors and Ford in Detroit's hard-hit auto industry are hiring engineers from the University of Michigan's College of Engineering at salaries ranging from $24,000 to $28,000 a year...