Word: relief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greatest drains on New York's wealth, patience and civic stability is the enormous welfare community, which has defied all efforts to cut it down. Relief rolls tripled in the 1960s, the most prosperous years in the nation's history. Today more than 1 million people-one out of every eight New Yorkers -are on welfare. Their benefits are the nation's highest. A family of four gets an average $258 a month along with $130 for rent, as well as food stamps and free medical care. The city also offers the widest range of supplements, such as payments...
...York has rendered, it deserves more federal aid. Some New Yorkers urge the U.S. to carry 75% of the city's welfare costs, as it does in a number of other states. A more limited scheme would reimburse New York City for the $110 million it pays in home relief-a program directed at people who have lost jobs in the recession...
...York is to get any relief...
Ford's tax reduction would give more relief to middle-and high-income individuals than those in lower brackets (see chart). Because he intends to abandon the recently enacted "earned-income credit"-which reduces the tax bill or provides an actual rebate for families earning less than $8,000 a year -Ford would in effect raise taxes for some poor families. His plan would also...
JUDGING FROM the experiences of the 28 celebrities who were interviewed for The First Time, relief and disappointment are not uncommon reactions. "My God, is this it?" Nora Ephron thought to herself after losing her virginity in a Harvard dormitory. "Is this what I've been going through all this torment about?" And Clifford Irving's first thought after his first time was, "That was lousy. I've got to fuck someone else." Perhaps it's just one of the facts of life that sexual initiation is a drag. Nevertheless, the subject continues to hold a certain fascination, whose power...