Word: reform
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...Michael S. Dukakis will co-lead a session on welfare reform...
...light of present cost-control measures and Proposition 13 fever, there is probable reluctance on the part of Congressmen to undertake federal welfare reform programs. However, the governor is going to stress the validity of these programs and point out the inefficiencies of present programs, especially in the Northeastern states," W. David Stephenson, Dukakis press secretary, said yesterday...
...youngsters in the late 1960s. Today the lines might serve as a lament for affluent investors who are watching some of their tax shelters being blown away. The winds of change are coming from the Internal Revenue Service and Congress, which greatly restricted tax avoidance schemes in the Tax Reform Act of 1976, and continued the attack in the latest law, which becomes fully effective...
Educational Theorist John Holt, author of Why Children Fail, used to tour the lecture circuit trying to persuade elementary and secondary schools to ease rigid rules and cut red tape. No longer. Despairing of reform within the nation's educational establishment, Holt has now decided to proselytize among parents, urging them to keep their children out of school and teach them at home...
DIED. James V. Bennett, 84, innovative director of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons from 1937 to 1964; of kidney failure; in Bethesda, Md. An early advocate of rehabilitation rather than punishment, Bennett introduced such then unknown reforms as job training for inmates, halfway houses and "open" prisons without bars or armed guards. His efforts met with success: during his tenure, the recidivism rate for released federal prisoners dropped 50%. After his retirement, Bennett continued to work for prison reform and gun control...