Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shah and his wife, Empress Fara, appealed to Iranians to contribute to a relief fund. Tens of thousands of Iranians remain homeless after the earthquake, and government officials expressed concern that the severely cold nights and hot days would endanger the health of those remaining without shelter...
Under Dukakis, real incomes for welfare recipients have fallen 18 per cent; for the disabled, real incomes have dropped 20 per cent. Dukakis cut general relief completely in 1975. As State Rep. Barney Frank points out, Dukakis balanced the Massachusetts budget by lowering the real incomes of poor people...
...William V. Roth (R-Del.), who with Rep. Jack F. Kemp (R-N.Y.) wrote the bill, called it overdue tax relief for working Americans...
Observers say the vote means the Finance Committee is likely to approve later this week a package of individual tax cuts that is nearly $4 billion larger than the similar bill passed last month in the House of Representatives. The Senate version is expected to target more relief on those making less than $50,000 a year than does the House bill...
...adjourning for the campaign, the Senate Finance Committee is continuing work on the final version of a tax cut bill. The House version of the tax cut proposal, which would reduce taxes by $16.3 billion, is being enlarged and reworked by the Senate committee in order to provide more relief to lower income families. A final draft of the tax cut bill will have to be worked out in a House-Senate conference...