Word: programer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brochure: "What is the nature of the connection between Israel and South Africa and why should it be of concern to Americans? Why is it important for the anti-apartheid movement and the peace movement to address this issue? What are its implications for an effective sanctions program, for the control of nuclear proliferation and for prospects for a just peace in the Middle East...
...your parents own a home, chances are almost one in two that they benefit from the most expensive welfare program in the country. It costs more than Medicaid. It costs more than unemployment compensation. It costs three times as much as Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), the program commonly known as "welfare...
...subsidies are bad, of course, especially when they are intended to promote something as important as housing. But just like any other government program, housing subsidies should be efficient, progressive, and fair. Because the mortgage interest deduction is none of these, it ought be abolished...
...mortgage interest deduction is about the most inefficient means imaginable for chaneling housing assistance to the needy. It is far less efficient, for example, than direct subsidies. Yet it was these subsidies that suffered more than any other program from Reagan's budget-cutting axe. In 1981, the federal government spent $33 billion on direct housing assistance. By 1989, it had been slashed to $8 billion. During the 1970s, the federal government built anywhere from 200,000 to 300,000 units of low-income housing per year. This year, it will build...
...does a program that discriminates against renters and the poor, benefits the greedy at the expense of the needy, and costs the federal government untold billions in revenue survive year after year...