Word: jobs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...encourage mothers of dependent children to work, the Nixon welfare package would develop 450,000 additional openings in new or expanded day-care centers. These facilities provide nursery care for the children as well as job opportunities for some of the mothers. The centers would also offer educational programs. To make the entire system more attractive to the states and cities, Washington would contribute more than it now does for AFDC costs. For instance, if the new approach were in effect this year, California would be getting an extra $179,500,000. Alaska would receive $1,000,000 more...
...Nixon himself admitted, no system represents a panacea. Undoubtedly, there will be difficulty in defining what constitutes a "suitable" job for potential applicants. Incentive to work may be dampened if unemployed men are forced to travel great distances to work, even if their transportation is paid. Coordination among levels of government is always a complicated process and, logical as the plan may sound to middle-class taxpayers and legislators, it is the response of the poor themselves that will be crucial to its success...
...least 50 persons for printing or distributing "antisocialist" leaflets. Czechoslovakia's Communist Party has issued stern warnings against "provocations." An ominous visitor has arrived in Prague. He is Soviet General Aleksei Epishev, chief political commissar of the Russian army and a member of the Soviet Central Committee, whose job it is to repress political dissent...
...dictated dismissal of the liberal Alexander Dubček last April, the nation gradually sank into the depths of despair and sullenness. The factory workers who a year ago volunteered for weekend "Dubček shifts" without pay, in order to boost production, are today blatantly loafing on the job and pilfering supplies. The slowdown has made a mockery of practically every state-prescribed quota. By the end of April, for example, only 11% of this year's construction targets had been completed. There is a shortage of many consumer goods. In a rare bit of candor for Czechoslovakia...
...cabinet that includes some competent former ministers and new faces from all eight fac tions of the Christian Democrats. For mer Premier Aldo Moro (1963-68) is Foreign Minister. Emilio Colombo, one of the architects of Il Boom, Italy's continuing prosperity, remains in his old job at the Treasury. Leftist Carlo Donat-Cattin, a newcomer to the Cabinet who favors increased cooperation with the Communist Party, is Labor Minister. Rumor has the promise of the Socialists that they will help him pass several reform bills, including one to modernize It aly's archaic universities, another to finance...