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...destroy. Attorney William Ball, who has defended Pennsylvania's eight Catholic dioceses in law suits challenging their tax privileges, argues that the church more than makes up for taxes it would otherwise pay in social services it performs. Pennsylvania's parochial schools, for example, provide education for one-fourth of the state's students, and together with Catholic charitable ventures are saving its government more than $250 million a year...
...income from existing taxes and state aid programs to raise the total to $385.5 million. Though the sum was far short of his goal, Lindsay scored a moral victory by winning a graduated income tax of up to 2% for city residents and a token "earnings tax" of from one-fourth to three-eighths of 1% on commuters.* The subway fare will almost certainly have to be increased...
...concerned, less than one-third of the U.S.'s 700,000 nursing-home beds are in institutions that have the medical staff and facilities to qualify for Government payments, ∙SEGREGATION. Under Title 6 of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, federal money cannot be appropriated for public institutions that practice racial discrimination. A last-minute campaign by Social Security Commissioner Robert Ball, who is the overall Medicare administrator, has convinced some Dixie hospital administrators that the financial benefits offered by guaranteed Medicare payments outweigh outmoded habits of bigotry. Yet right now, only one-fourth of the hospitals...
...easily withdrawn passbook savings. They have done this by selling "certificates of deposit," which pay up 10 5½% for funds left on deposit for a fixed time, usually three months. The so-called C.D.s, in denominations as low as $25, have attracted $37 billion now constitute a volatile one-fourth of interest-bearing deposits in commercial banks...
...program had scarcely started when investigators claimed that fully one-fourth of the youths drawing salaries came from families well above the poverty line. One indiscreet Youth Corps girl tooled to work in a 1965 Thunderbird, was asked to resign. In Macoupin County, Ill., Democratic officials turned the program into a patronage pie for their children until OEO found out and ordered 83 youngsters dropped. Protested one $9,000-a-year Democrat jobholder whose stepson was bounced: "He comes from a broken home, don't he? Anyway, to the victors goes the spoils. You know what I mean...