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Medical care for the jobless...
...health-insurance coverage to laid-off workers for at least a year, or until they found other jobs. The former employee would pay the premiums, but at group costs, which are usually lower than individual rates. The Administration also said it would back legislation requiring employers to permit the jobless to enroll in the health-care plans of their working spouses. At least 40% of the nation's 11.4 million unemployed have working partners, said Stockman, and nearly one-third of the jobless could retain health benefits that...
...Jobless workers on a rampage...
...withholding measure ignited an acrimonious déjà vu debate. "It is a second shot by the American Bankers Association not only to hold up the jobless and homeless but now all those who depend on Social Security," fumed Kansas Republican Robert Dole, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. At a White House meeting of congressional leaders, President Reagan also lashed out. "I've had it up to here with the bankers," he declared, throwing his glasses on the table. "They're sitting on their keisters when they should be lowering interest rates." The outbursts had their...
...face, the action of the freshman Republican Senator from Wisconsin was callously opportunistic. He was endangering passage of a bill that would extend unemployment benefits to jobless workers in 27 states and create an estimated 400,000 jobs. In behalf of the nation's well-heeled banking lobby, he hung an amendment on the jobs bill that would cancel the scheduled July 1 start of the withholding of 10% of income from interest and dividends. This is a reform designed to reduce tax cheating and raise nearly $11 billion in revenue in the next three years. Said Senate Finance...