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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Worse, inflation has built up unsettling momentum. One reason is a long series of past blunders by the Carter Administration: backing a huge increase in the minimum wage, promoting Social Security tax increases and thus jacking up business costs, forcing an expensive settlement of the coal strike. Another reason is that food prices are jumping, partly because of supply shortages caused by the brutal winter. Propelled largely by food costs, wholesale prices in June rose at an annual rate...
...cervix or the fallopian tubes (which can become blocked, causing sterility) and other pelvic areas. Even worse, the infection can be passed on to babies during birth, causing eye infections and pneumonia. Says Epidemiologist Julius Schachter of the University of California at San Francisco: "Five percent, at a minimum, of all newborn infants are exposed to these organisms. Forty percent to 50% of all babies passing through an infected cervix acquire chlamydial infection...
...have received abortions in the nation since 1973 have been non-white. These are precisely the women who cannot afford to pay for abortions, the women whose children have a good chance of growing up in an unhappy enviornment, particularly if they are not wanted to begin with. The minimum price for an abortion these days is about $150. That rock-bottom price may not seem like very much to some people, but if this is half of one month's welfare check, and you are already trying to support six children, it's an awful lot of money...
...quick slump back into recession, or perhaps both. Although Miller opposed his colleagues at the Fed on the need for another discount rate increase, he is persuaded that inflation is a more immediate peril than recession; he recommended that Congress postpone the 25?-an-hour increase in the minimum wage (now $2.65) that is set for next...
...economic changes. The women's movement, the divorce epidemic, inflation-all beckoned mothers to seek jobs outside the home. Even the decline in the birth rate boosted Kinder-Care. As school enrollments dropped, laid-off teachers were quite willing to work for Kinder-Care at the federal minimum of $2.65 an hour. Forty percent of Mendel's 2.300 day-care employees are former teachers; many of the rest are housewives in need of extra cash. Center directors receive only $11,000 a year, but Mendel offers them a plum: their kids can attend free...