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...WORKING POOR MAY not expect much from the government, but at a minimum they wish the government would not make their hard lives even harder. But that is what happened in 1983, when a blue-ribbon commission headed by Alan Greenspan decided to "save" Social Security by hoisting payroll taxes to record heights. The employer and employee share of the payroll tax, which in 1960 was 3% each, for a total of $530 for people who worked full time at minimum wage, now stands at 7.65% each for a total of $1,352. Today more than three-quarters of American...
...URBAN INSTITUTE STUDY CONSIDERED the case of a hypothetical Pennsylvania woman with two children who received $4,836 in AFDC, $2,701 in food stamps and $3,000 in Medicaid benefits, for a total of $10,537 in cash and benefits. If she took a full-time job at minimum wage, her family would gain $9,516 in earnings before taxes and lose Medicaid, AFDC and one-third of her food stamps. Moreover, she would have to find and pay for day care. Welfare recipients who take part in job-training and education programs are eligible for subsidized care...
...working poor," argues Isaac Shapiro of Washington's Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, which is about to release a report detailing the impact of the budget proposals on low-income families. "They are talking of substantially reducing the EITC. They are opposed to an increase in the minimum wage. What's gotten lost in the message is that the programs that offer assistance to the working poor could be partially if not completely reversed by the new agenda...
...used his position as publisher of dozensof newspapers to further awareness of socialproblems. In one eight-part series of editorialsin the Gainesville (Fla.) Sun, Harrison called fora minimum housing code in order to get urbanrenewal funds for low-cost minority housing. Theseries won him a Pulitzer Prize in 1965 andresulted in the construction of more than 8,000new housing units in the city after the code waspassed...
...week, first years will have to spend themorning acing or bombing the notoriousQuantitative Reasoning Requirement Data Test.Students arrive to their assigned testinglocation, QRR Study Guides in hand, and get readyto embark on the long journey to "20," which isthe minimum score for passing the exam. Byachieving this feat, first-years avoid the nasty"QRA" course and are liberated from bell curvesand pie charts forever--unless they're intostatistics or are regular readers of USA Today...