Word: program
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EVER since Barry M. Goldwater campaigned against Social Security in 1964 and lost in a 44-state landslide, America's largest government income maintenance program has also been its most politically secure. The image of poverty-stricken, elderly pensioners--not to mention the political wrath of well-organized and politically active senior citizens--has stifled criticism from even the most conservative politicians...
THAT'S right, scrap the entire Social Security program. Even if you believe (as I certainly do) that the U.S. government should provide income security to the elderly and disabled, you could scarcely devise a more unfair and inefficient way to do it than the Social Security system...
Liberals also insist that keeping the rich on the entitlement rolls is a political necessity. It is true that many wealthy senior citizens would not support the program if they did not benefit from it. But by bribing the rich for their support, liberals are hurting the very group they want to help--the elderly poor...
...Harvard doing anything to increase the pool? The Mellon Foundation has given Harvard $350,000 to set up a program of research opportunities in which Black, Hispanic, and Native American students would work with faculty members in their fields of study. The goal is to encourage them to attend graduate school and eventually become professors. Then why hasn't Harvard actually done anything to implement this program...
Columbia University has initiated a $25 million fellowship program to provide research internships for minority undergraduates and to fund their graduate studies. Columbia has also adopted a loan forgiveness program, under which minority students will find it less costly to go on to graduate school. Why isn't Harvard doing anything like that...