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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Califano is also working vigorously to reduce the number of unwanted teen-age pregnancies. He was shocked when he first saw the HEW figures: one out of ten American teen-age girls becomes pregnant. Both he and Carter have gone on record as opposing abortions, and Congress has limited funds for abortions for the poor. But Califano believes the Government has an obligation to make as much birth control information as possible available to teenagers, especially those who are poor. He boosted the 1979 budget for such programs by $142 million, to $338 million...
...trend is always up, and HEW expenditures, which now make up 36% of the federal budget, are expected to grow even faster in the future. Califano estimates that by the year 2010 real spending on benefits for people 65 and older will have tripled, to $350 billion a year. At the same time there will be fewer working Americans to provide the money on which the vast superstructure of assistance rests. Because of the declining birth rate, the ratio of working to retired people will shift from 6 to 1 today to 3 to 1 by 2030. Since not much...
...cost of helping the nation's victims of disease and misfortune is high. Every time HEW provides a life-saving dialysis for one of its 40,000 patients with impaired kidneys, it spends $146.79; each patient costs $22,900 a year. Each of the 442,000 disadvantaged youngsters being prepared for school through Head Start costs the Government $ 1,604 a year. Each of the 21.5 million Americans on Medicaid costs HEW an average of $532 annually...
...sums needed by HEW are so huge in fact that the Niagara of dollars that flows out to Americans can be rendered comprehensible only when placed, quite unfairly, in a wholly different context. If, for example, the money HEW plans to spend next year were given instead to all Americans, every man, woman and child in the U.S. would receive...
Another such way of looking at HEW's annual cost is to compare its budget with the price tag of the 25th birthday party it threw at its Washington headquarters two weeks ago. The department celebrated with a two-day bash for 8,000 of its employees and beneficiaries that included outdoor concerts, a chicken barbecue and performances by Sesame Street's Big Bird, whose creation was funded by HEW. The price of the whole thing was $15,000-no small sum; yet, based on an eight-hour working day, the cost amounted only to about what HEW...