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...when expiration of an Administration recession law will drop 320,000 workers-who have already used up their regular jobless pay -from special federal unemployment compensation lists. Hoping to do more than extend the emergency legislation, Mitchell has spelled out a plan for basic revision in the present patchwork of state compensation practices, all financed by the 3% U.S. payroll tax. By setting stiffer standards under which states qualify for their lion's share of this tax, Mitchell hopes to lengthen coverage to a uniform 30 weeks at half pay for the average worker who loses...
Ringing the tocsin at this point is unhealthy, but it must be realized that if both East and West hold to their present claims there will be conflict. Since even the panic and patchwork diplomacy of Secretary Dulles is virtually unavailable, it is imperative that effective leadership be installed in the State Department...
...pieces stitched into the broadening patchwork of Southern integration last week...
Even more important was the job of encouraging major industries to expand and recruiting new ones from outstate. They had long been scared off by an outdated and complicated patchwork of tax laws. Hodges called for a major tax reform to help business. Though opponents howled that he wanted to hand businessmen a $7,000,000-a-year tax windfall, Hodges got his bill passed in 1957. While it trimmed state revenues by $2,000,000 the first year, it also brought in new companies. The day the tax bill passed, Allied-Kennecott Titanium Corp. announced a new $40 million...
State governments work through such a bewildering variety of finance systems -mostly vintage masterpieces of political patchwork-that the U.S. Census Bureau needs about eleven months to reckon a firm figure for the actual money spent by all states in any given year. Last week Census popped up with its tally on spending by states for fiscal 1957: a record $21,084,666,000, up 12% in the same year that federal expenditures (including state-run federal-aid programs) climbed only 4%. Since fiscal 1946, when legislatures set to work on the backlogged needs for schools and roads, hundreds...