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That requirement is especially galling for the British, the largest and fastest growing group of tourists to the U.S. Some 1 million Britons are expected to apply for visas this year, up from 900,000 in 1980. Some 98% have been approved; most of those turned down are jobless young people who might be prospective immigrants, not tourists. Travel money and a return ticket are favored proofs of tourist status...
There is no effective birth control policy in Latin America, and we have little control over immigration. The combination of an ever increasing number of jobless and destitute people will produce a further rise in crime, welfare and taxes. Soon an irate electorate will demand an irrational, punitive immigration policy -unless a reasonable, well-enforced one precedes...
...Democrat who heads the House Budget Committee. The root of the problem is that anyone attempting to gauge the effect of proposed spending and tax cuts has to make a stab at forecasting what inflation, unemployment and interest rates are likely to be. A one-point rise in the jobless rate, for example, adds $30 billion to the federal deficit by increasing expenditures for unemployment compensation, welfare and the like, and by reducing tax collections. A one-point rise in interest rates adds $3 billion to $4 billion to interest payments on the federal debt; higher inflation raises all Government...
...fact is that tension has been building for months in Brixton, home of many of the 620,000 black West Indians who have immigrated to Britain, or been born there, since the 1950s. As in the U.S., racial friction and unemployment often seem to go together: the jobless rate in areas like Brixton is twice Britain's 10.3% national average...
Last year it took upwards of $46 million to keep the royal operation afloat, and even in a time of serious unemployment (10.3% of the work force are jobless), there are surprisingly few complaints that the country is not getting its money's worth. Almost 90% of polled Britons want to retain the monarchy, and recently, when Labor's William Hamilton made a solitary exit from Parliament after another of his frequent excoriations of the extravagant royals, Conservative M.P. Geoffrey Finsberg scoffed, "Those who share Mr. Hamilton's view will doubtless have left the chamber with...