Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...children through a trustee or a local welfare agency. To make vocational education both more available and more attractive, the Nixon plan calls for the creation of 150,000 new federal job-training slots (raising the total to more than 1,000,000) and the payment of $30-per-month stipends for those who enroll...
With congressional approval, Nixon's cure for welfare woes could go into effect in 1971. Under its provisions, federal assistance for the aged, the blind and the disabled would continue unchanged, except that benefits would be increased. A uniform floor of $65 per month for all such recipients would be established, with the Treasury chipping in 25% of the cost in excess of $65. The largest and most controversial segment of the present welfare system-aid to families with dependent children (AFDC)-would be eliminated...
Under the present hodgepodge of individual state regulations, benefits fluctuate wildly. In Mississippi, a family headed by an unemployed woman receives $39 per month. In New Jersey, the same family gets $263. Largely as a result of these discrepancies, many impoverished people migrate from low-paying states-especially in the South -to areas with better benefits...
...boasts a new source of notoriety: 17 of Texarkana's 24 sq. mi., including some of the better sections, are infested with sleek, fat rats. According to U.S. Interior Department investigators, the town harbors about 900,000 of the rodents-30 times the national average of one rat per two citizens...
From 1950 to 1966 rebates rates were ten and eight per cent. However, in he fiscal year ending July 1, 1967, rates were cut to the present level of eight and six per cent...