Word: planning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Columbia student has been anonymous in his community. No social unit brings students together to meet. Students eat off campus in restaurants; the college doesn't have a major food plan. Dormitory room doors always lock automatically...
...bound to anger the middle class unless the legislation seeks, as does the bill proposed by Congressman Laird, to keep the gap between the poor and the middle class large enough to make the middle class feel secure. Most proposals so far do just that. The Poor Peoples' plan tacitly assumes that anyone with an able body should work for his income. So does the Laird Bill, which incorporaties most of Friedman's views on income subsidies...
...Laird's plan is a Negative Income Tax, which is not necessarily equivalent to a guaranteed minimum income. With NIT, the government makes up a certain proportion of the difference between a person's earned income and a set base figure. Laird's bill sets the base at $3000 and the proportion at one-half. In a sense, this NIT does guarantee a minimum income of $1500, but for NIT to be a guaranteed minimum income in the proper sense of the word, it should make up the full difference between the income and the base figure. By making...
...only proposal which stands a chance of pleasing both the middle class and the poor is one that combines a minimum income with an opportunity for a job and an obligation to work. This plan operates under the theory that income guarantee is necessary, but that those receiving it must undertake full-time productive employment. A concurrent elimination of minimum wage laws would permit industry to hire more labor than it can now. The government could offer public works employment as an alternative to unattractive industrial jobs, undertaking projects like slum clearance and cleaning littered highways--projects that require great...
...this type. There will have to be some provision made for families without fathers. Should mothers be required to work? Would this scheme, like any income subsidy, encourage illegitimacy? Since a single male will almost certainly receive, proportionally, more money than the head of a family, how can the plan prevent father and mother from remaining unmarried and receiving separate checks adding to a much larger total...