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...Germany's average per capita income of $1,358, and seems opulent beside Spain's $342. To determine the precise borders of poverty, the U.S. reckons that a man could have three adequate meals a day for 700 if he bought nothing but Government surplus foods. The minimum also includes a sparse allowance for rent, clothing and other necessities; in the case of a single farmer, who can obtain cheap food, the minimum is $1,080. The poverty line is $3,130 for an urban family of four, $2,200 for a farm family. Only 30% of America...
...more radical proposal is the "negative income tax" theory of University of Chicago Economist Milton Friedman, a former Goldwater braintruster. He proposes that the Federal Government set a $3,000 yearly income as the minimum for a family of four, and pay a man 50% of the difference if he falls below that figure; to give the man 100%, says Friedman, would deaden his initiative...
...savage and barbarous" system that strips recipients of all dignity. If millions of the poor could be shown how to claim all the benefits to which they are legally entitled, Cloward believes, they would so overload welfare rolls that Congress would have no choice but to enact a guaranteed minimum income...
...repatriation." When death occurs abroad, the problems for the family are complex. The cheerful note is that no country serves its dead as quickly and as well as the U.S., whose consuls abroad are the envy of Europe in their ability to get the deceased homeward bound with a minimum of delay...
...have specially trained personnel. Standard procedure calls for working with members of the family, if they are present, or cabling them for instructions if they are not (all passport applications list next of kin). The family is requested to deposit money with the State Department to defray the expenses (minimum cost from Europe, $1,100 including embalming and transportation). In most instances the deceased is homeward bound within three to four days. Delay does occur, however, when the deceased has left a will specifying how and where he wishes to be buried. One U.S. visitor who died in Cairo...