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...peddle pills and condoms: rice farmers, shopkeepers, silk weavers, fruit vendors, at least one undertaker and a golf caddy. "They are all respected people in the community," he says. "They are trusted." The volunteer family planners also help run Mechai's nonpregnancy agricultural credit program, which offers low-cost loans to farmers who avoid pregnancy until the loan is repaid...
...delivering the mail. Not until last year did Congress insist on cutting its annual subsidy of $920 million by 10%. Now Reagan proposes to take another $632 million from the subsidy in 1982. The initial cuts would mainly affect county post offices and rural deliveries, as well as low-cost mass mailings by charitable institutions and churches. One endangered service: Saturday deliveries...
...help small farmers get started or stay in business when faced with high land costs, high interest rates and rising equipment or operational costs, as well as to recover from drought and other disasters. FHA has since become a helpful big brother to much of agricultural America. It aids in building water and sewage systems for small towns, and provides loans to construct low-cost housing for the rural poor. Last year FHA spent about $14.5 billion in loans and public construction grants. Reagan proposes to cut this lending by 25%, saving more than $400 million...
...proposed committee might "allow us to ask the cab industry for things as well," Teso said, citing improved low-cost service to elderly residents as an example...
Pierce, who has been involved in low-cost housing projects as a trustee of the N.A.A.C.P.'S National Housing Corporation's Special Contributions Fund, favors tax incentives for businesses that move into blighted areas and create new jobs. Says he: "Anything that's reasonable to get business in and keep it there, I'm for." With his background as an advocate, Sam Pierce is likely to be more than window dressing for the Reagan Cabinet...