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...Daniel P. Moynihan (D-N.Y.) is sponsoring a tax-cut bill aimed at helping middle-income groups meet the costs of college education. President Carter opposes this bill, advocating instead an expansion of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare's (HEW) existing Student Financial Aid Program...
Holly called Moynihan's position on the tax-cut bill "a matter of equity," based on the needs of middle-income groups. He said Moynihan is "disappointed that the administration sees HEW's Aid Program as an alternative," not an adjunct, to the proposed bill...
Hugh Sidey, in his highly complimentary column on the Secretary of HEW, Joe Califano [Feb. 20], tells us this man is "determined to make American life a little better than it was." I assume Mr. Sidey knows that "a little better" means a lot more socialism and that the extraordinary energy Big Brother Joe brings to the job of "tinkering with the heart, mind and body of America" stems from the pressure of knowing he has only six years left until...
When the student aid supporters say two parallel bureaucracies would be wasteful, the tax credit backers answer that leaving the job to one bureaucracy is worse--considering that bureaucracy is the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW). Roth's aides cite the Guaranteed Student Loan Program as an example of a bureaucracy at its worse. Calling the program "the worst administered program in the government," one aide says that one in every six loans granted under the program now stands in default, and 316 people who have defaulted on their loans work within HEW itself. The aide also says...
...most promising people are often mangled by the Government machinery. Harold Hodgkinson, director of HEW'S National Institute of Education during the Ford Administration, wanted to promote a talented secretary but was unable to get her reclassified for a better job. The Civil Service Commission said that if she were reclassified, every other secretary in the agency would have to be reclassified. "There is almost no ability to promote able people from secretarial and clerical positions into leadership posts," he says. "Once people are on a track, you can't get them switched to another...