Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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California eases the impact with a $5 billion relief fund...
...committee finally tied together a package of first-year emergency aid that will considerably soften the impact of Proposition 13. The solution was swiftly approved by the full legislature and signed into law by a pleased Brown, whose own relief plan had been only slightly modified. In a televised address to Californians, he declared: "Proposition 13 creates challenges, it creates problems, but it creates an opportunity to make government in California a model for people all over the country...
...parcel out $5 billion of an estimated $5.8 billion surplus in state revenues to more than 6,000 local government units. The schools will get the biggest chunk of the fund, $2.2 billion. That will mean only a 10.5% overall cut in their operating cash from current levels. The relief money will be applied on a sliding scale so districts that have long had less money for schools will get the most. This will help meet a California Supreme Court decision that support of schools should be equalized...
Police and fire-fighting forces fared even better. The legislature directed that a $250 million slice of the relief fund for cities be used to prevent any cut at all in police and fire department budgets. The result may be, however, that towns and cities will have to cut even more deeply than feared into services like parks and recreation, libraries, public transportation, street cleaning and garbage collection. Local officials may even have to pinch themselves where it hurts most: cutting administrative staffs and such perks as travel allowances and official cars...
Encouraged by the lowest transatlantic air fares in history, more Americans than ever are expected to visit Europe this year. But the tourist who is not on an all-inclusive package trip should tote along a Jeroboam of aspirin. Relief will be needed just about every time he has to pay for a hotel room, a meal, a cup of coffee or a bottle of mineral water to wash down the medicine. The dollar's weak buying power in most European countries, further sapped by inflation in many of the places on itineraries, makes even the disco life...