Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...between the new proposal and current practice is that the Nixon program would recognize the nation's working poor. In many states, the present AFDC laws bar aid to families with able-bodied fathers in the home. For many of these men, who are either unemployed or have low-paying jobs, there is only one choice. They desert their families. Nixon's program would provide for such families without encouraging the father to leave. It would authorize relief for 12,400,000 needy Americans who now get none...
Under the present hodgepodge of individual state regulations, benefits fluctuate wildly. In Mississippi, a family headed by an unemployed woman receives $39 per month. In New Jersey, the same family gets $263. Largely as a result of these discrepancies, many impoverished people migrate from low-paying states-especially in the South -to areas with better benefits...
...squad of Viet Cong guerrillas managed about midnight to slip past trip flares and guard posts on the northern perimeter. Once inside, they unerringly made their way to the army hospital. After hurling satchel charges at ward doors and windows, the guerrillas fired automatic rifles into the long, low buildings. Dashing through the darkness, the Viet Cong also blew up a chapel and a water tower. In all, the attack damaged 19 buildings. Most of the 732 patients were carried out or managed to scramble to safety. Even so, the toll was two Americans killed and 98 wounded, some gravely...
...group of Design school students and faculty were not satisfied; they have been calling for construction of 500 units--half for University personnel, half for low-income community residents on the site...
University officials have opposed the proposal to build low-income housing on Shady Hill. Other sites currently being studied by Harvard are more appropriate for this use, Goyette said, since they have better transportation facilities, and are closer to local shopping areas...