Word: hewed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gifted, the divorced and the depressed, the sex discriminator and the sex offender, for those who are pregnant and those who are sterile. Whatever the ailment or anxiety, the department will have some remedy among its 400 programs, a range of activities that increases so fast not even HEW'S own top administrators can keep up with them...
...breathtakingly brief time?just 25 years?HEW has assembled an empire that would be the envy of the pharaohs or the ancient Chinese emperors. Only this is a benevolent empire of round-the-clock services that go directly to 115 million Americans and indirectly touch just about everybody in the nation. It is an empire, moreover, of 1,125,000 bureaucrats augmented by computers. Without its electronic marvels, HEW's accomplishments would be unthinkable. While most of the department's programs are administered from its huge Washington headquarters, Social Security data are processed in a building outside Baltimore...
...HEW fights racial discrimination and sends welfare money to the needy. The department's health services send a steady stream of payments to recipients of Medicare and Medicaid. HEW conducts more than half the nation's biomedical research into cancer and other killer diseases. The Food and Drug Administration's regulations control products that account for about 25 cents of every dollar spent by consumers. HEW'S education division distributes aid to schools and colleges and helps fund Sesame Street, the TV program that delights and instructs the nation's small fry. There are other programs for ethnic studies...
...more HEW has tried to do, the more criticism of it has grown. Originally established to aid the helpless and the destitute, the department has expanded its programs to take care of people who often can take care of themselves. Its size has become prodigious. Its budget for the fiscal year beginning this October...
...billion, up $17 billion in a single year. HEW has the third largest budget in the world, outranked only by those of the U.S. Government and the Soviet Union. Its spending roughly equals that of all 50 states combined. The department goes through $500 million every day. By comparison, the Pentagon is a piker's operation (1979 budget: $118 billion). That fact alone indicates how American priorities have changed...