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Liberals were also less than pleased with the welfare program's proposed base-subsidy figure of $1,600. As the family income increases, the federal subsidy would decrease. When the family's annual income reached $3,920, all federal assistance would end. New York Republican Senator Jacob Javits said that the $1,600 must only be considered "as a beginning." Javits added: "Congress will have to consider-perhaps on a phased-in basis-a support level of at least $3,000 for those who are unable to support themselves." Congress will have that opportunity. Three representatives-Jonathan Bingham...
Suspicion Created. The Administration's proposal has its confusing points. Chief of these is the relationship between the proposed welfare system and the $1 billion federal food program that Nixon sponsored last spring. According to the new program, families who accepted federal assistance would not be eligible for federal food stamps. Said Nixon in his message to Congress: "For dependent families there will be an orderly substitution of food stamps by the new direct monetary payments...
...criticism. Senator Javits attacked the food-stamp restriction, and South Dakota's Senator George McGovern and Minnesota's Senator Walter Mondale rapidly petitioned the President to retain the stamps for welfare recipients. Last May, Nixon proposed a $1 billion annual increase in spending for the federal food program for the poor. The White House's present position against giving food stamps to family-assistance recipients has led some critics to suspect that Nixon intends to finance his welfare plan partially with money saved on the federal food-assistance program...
...change about problems of the poor and offers hope for the future." Roy Wilkins, head of the N.A.A.C.P., called the concept a "step in the right direction." Their optimism, in fact, was not too far removed from the views of the critics. Even the more outspoken criticism of the program's details seemed not so much calculated to reject the scheme as to improve on an essentially good idea...
...approved by Congress, Nixon's revenue-sharing plan would begin by splitting $500 million among the 50 states during the six-month period starting Jan. 1, 1971. By 1975, the money to be divided would grow to an estimated $5 billion. The program would begin by offering the states one-sixth of one percent of the nation's total taxable income, less deductions and exemptions. By 1976, this share would grow to 1 % of the country's total taxable income, the level at which it would remain. Each state's share would be calculated through...