Word: mississippis
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...large measure, Jerry Ford can thank the New Deal for that improvement. The Social Security Act of 1935 and subsequent social legislation so greatly extended the jobless benefits that most out-of-work Americans now collect tax-free income for up to 65 weeks, averaging from $48.15 weekly in Mississippi to $95.56 in the District of Columbia. In fiscal 1976 the average payment was $71.85 weekly, and more than 10 million people collected jobless checks at one time or another. Add food stamps, welfare, union unemployment benefits (which in the auto industry bring jobless aid up to as much...
...change. He would replace the entire jerry-built welfare system that hands out money in a welter of ways with one making single payments. Adjusted for cost of living differences around the country, the allotments would largely end the migration of jobless families from areas with low benefits (like Mississippi) to high-paying areas (like New York City). The cities, which now carry part of the welfare burden, would no longer be required to pay anything; the bill would be divided between the Federal Government-the lion's share-and the states. Carter argues that...
...SOUTH. Carter retains a healthy edge in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia. North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. Carter clings to a small lead in Texas. Mississippi leans to Carter. Virginia, which earlier leaned to Ford, and Louisiana are too close to call...
...swing through the South, President Ford turned up one day with Alabama Football Coach Paul ("Bear") Bryant at his side. While a crowd watched and TV cameras whirred, Bryant smiled benevolently, reached over and patted the President on the head. "That was worth 100,000 votes in football-crazy Mississippi," said a happy Ford aide later...
Although the Mississippi ruling was not that the tests themselves were inherently prejudiced, the question of racial, sexual and cultural bias in ETS tests has been coming up for years. Brill cites an ETS study that found a direct, consistent correlation between seven categories of family income and SAT scores: students from wealthy families have higher median board scores than middle-income students, who in turn score higher than low income students. Brill goes on to say that "other ETS data, which ETS Executive Vice President Solomon said could not be made public because 'it would be misinterpreted,' show that...