Word: money
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Believing as he does that too little federal money has been put into scientific research in recent years, Dr. Lee A. Du-Bridge, 67, is sure to be popular among his professional colleagues. Named last week as Science Adviser to the Nixon Administration, the articulate president of the California Institute of Technology will need all the teaching and administrative experience he has gained at five universities. His responsibilities will include keeping the President abreast of scientific developments at home and abroad, selling the Administration's policies to the academic community, and intensifying the nation's federal and private...
...powerful House Subcommittee on Appropriations for State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary and related agencies, the diminutive Democrat from Brooklyn has made a career of slashing budget requests, especially those of the State Department. It was Rooney who coined the famous expression "booze allowance" for diplomats' representational allowance-money allotted for official entertaining. His blistering interrogations have left battered and bloodied almost two generations of officialdom. Despite his tortuous quizzings and penurious disposition, Rooney, 65, has his advocates in Foggy Bottom. Financially, at least. Last week a report on the contributors to his 1969 primary campaign showed that a slew...
...Federal Government's Office of Economic Opportunity-have encouraged the poor to drop whatever inhibitions they had about welfare. Sharp-eyed lawyers and organizers are discovering hidden benefits that scarcely anyone knew existed. Welfare officials, in turn, are being pressured to grant new benefits, such as money for telephones and Christmas gifts, so that life on welfare can more closely approximate life in the rest of America. Yet the welfare militants have more in mind than just getting a little more. By stretching the current system to its farthest limit, they reason, they will make it so expensive that...
While economists tend to favor the negative-income-tax principle, sociologists, most notably Daniel Patrick Moynihan, tend to prefer another kind of income supplement: family or children's allowances. Under this scheme, every family in the country, rich or poor, would receive a certain amount of money for each child. The affluent would return it with their income taxes, but those who really need it would keep it for basic needs. The main beneficiaries would be the children. No fewer than 62 nations, including Canada and all the countries of Europe, already give family allowances. The family allowance, unlike...
...sure, difficulties as well. The family allowance would still not take care of the childless poor, while the negative income tax could not really be administered, as its proponents sometimes claim, with only a small addition to the staff of the Internal Revenue Service. For one thing, money would have to be handed out monthly or weekly, a big chore that would cause rather substantial changes in the IRS bureaucracy. The negative income tax would have a further practical drawback. Middle-income workers would not benefit at all, as they would with family allowances, and they would undoubtedly balk...